Philip Cooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Cooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooke |
| SIGNATURE | COOKE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4904-6638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 91 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 671 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Five fallacies to avoid for future spatial development practice
In this brief essay, we introduce several fallacies that are seldom confronted in spatial planning studies and practice. The presentation is set within the context of the now-emergent ‘polycrisis’ and its aftermath as evolutionary change works its way through large-scale processes that have been confronting humanity in unpredictable ways and unexpected locations. We offer reflections on five fallacies that challenge interventionist thinking, whic…
Rethinking clusters and the paradox of sustainability innovation: Local or global
This Special Issue reports findings from the ‘Rethinking Clusters’ conference held in Valencia in the latter part of November 2023. At the time no-one dreamt that an important part of its thematic – sustainability – in the context of innovation would, within a year, loom so fatally large by the experience of global heating in the form of catastrophic floods which so badly affected the lives of communities in the wider Valencia city and region at …
China's Belt and Road Initiative, Marine Transportation and Energy Infrastructure at Sines, Portugal and Piraeus, Greece with the ‘Athenian Riviera’ Mass Tourism Gigaproject
This paper provides a critical assessment of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in general, as an exercise in unsuccessfully controlling the contradictions in capitalism of under-consumption, on the one hand, and over-accumulation, on the other. It further analyses the political tensions surrounding the implementation of two spatial planning gigaprojects associated with BRI. The first account focuses on the major Port of Sines, Portugal, acq…
Triple helix selection in the regional innovation systems field. In memoriam: Loet Leydesdorff
My first academic collaboration with Loet was in 2002 when we had been invited to provide the guest editorial for a Special Issue of The Journal of Technology Transfer (JTT). The occasion for this was a conference held in San Sebastian-Donostia and was entitled ‘Technology Transfer in European Regions’—Leydesdorff et al. (J Technol Transf 27(1):5–13, 2002). The issue contained a number of case studies of ‘regional innovation systems’ within the E…
A tour of the European space economy: Theorizing ‘What Happened?’
This editorial is intended to provide a brief overview of the evolution of a selection of European space economies and policies introduced to mitigate the devastating effects of at least five crises most have faced in the past decade or more. In a time of great fragility in economy, politics and society, concatenations of the five crises and more have challenged planners to come up with new solutions to long-standing urban and regional problems (…
Rogue auditors: Dark motivations of the Big 4 accountants in regional sustainability and the creative economy
This contribution develops previous work analysing forms of misconduct by knowledge-intensive professional business services (P-KIBS) firms, globally located and client-interactive on all five continents. Here we focus on accountancy partnerships, having previously investigated management consultancies. In the former, the infractions range from condoning systematic cheating at accountancy examinations, to unchecked client accountancy estimates si…
Competition in the ‘body without organs’: An assemblage perspective on the UK’s fast train (HS2) cancellation
In this contribution, an investigation is made into the abandonment of a very large infrastructural investment by the UK government. It was the HS2 (High Speed 2) train ‘assemblage’ for the 345 miles from Leeds in the North to London. It occurred in the belief that such expenditure would ‘level-up’ the worsening regional economic disparities between the two regions and render the North (dubbed the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ by successive governments) …
Learning as imitation or mimesis: How ‘smart’ is machine learning for its planning controllers
The idea to be explored in this contribution is that to understand change as society evolves is useless without Learning that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing and may look ‘smart’ but is likely to be unwise. This in turn requires an understanding of why the label ‘knowledge economy’ came into substantial usage by opinion-formers at about the same time. Thus a first wave of injunctions in favour of ‘Learning’ by governments and corporat…
Theme issue: Open innovation and ‘catch-up’: globalist or localist
This collection on ‘Open Innovation and Catch-Up: Globalist or Localist?’ is introduced with an appreciation of three key transitions for spatial development today, viewed through seven comparative case analyses from Asia, the US and Europe. ‘Institutional path dependence’ is the first issue. The second has been ‘hyperglobalization’ now under moderate challenge from ‘de-globalization’. Third, is the process of ‘open innovation’ that accompanied t…
Special issue: 2023 EPS Jubilee Issue. Global heating and crisis mitigation
In this article four main things are done. First, the difference between ‘disaster preparedness’ and the established field of ‘disaster planning’ is denoted. The latter, confusingly, is seen as post hoc aftermath response rather than prepared forethought. Second, there is a discussion about the similarities between ‘disaster clean-up’ in Roman times which was extorted as taxation from the poor to subsidize the rich and neo-liberal taxation policy…
Post-Coronavirus regional innovation policies: From mega to giga and beyond through sustainable spatial planning of global tourism
This contribution is critical of Neo-Schumpeterian innovation studies for a historic tendency to reify ‘industrial’ capitalism as its main conceptual framing model. This includes blind spots concerning the sustainability-free advocacy of ‘green revolution’ chemical fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide practice in industrialist food production. The Coronavirus contagion has alerted regional scientists to these lacunae and this contribution attempts…
New global tourism innovation in a post-coronavirus era
World capitalism has become capitalism of abundance, but decadent capitalism. Today's capitalism is potentially destructive of the planet on which we live. This text seeks to highlight some of the irrationalities underlying this destructive potential, taking the relation between tourism and innovation as a paradigmatic example. The conceptual, political and operational articulation of tourism with innovation is not an easy task to accomplish, and…
Image and reality: ‘Digital Twins’ in Smart Factory Automotive Process Innovation – Critical Issues
This paper is interested in the application of ‘digital innovation’ modes in an extended geographical economy setting, namely automotive industry process innovation. It is clear that challenging, complex and combinatory or ‘crossover’ knowledge issues arise periodically as competing system processes rise and fall in popularity with rivalrous automakers. This involves achieving the image if not the reality as ‘digital twins’ of prescience in marke…
Dark Entrepreneurship, the ‘Dark Triad’ and Its Potential ‘Light Triad’ Realization in ‘Green Entrepreneurship’
This contribution seeks to achieve three main objectives. First it draws on a substantial, but often overlooked literature on wide-scale international decline in entrepreneurship as recorded in the ‘business dynamics’ literature. This has serious implications for academic study of entrepreneurship which must re-direct its focus to problems of entrepreneurial unattractiveness dating from at least the 1980s. More important, public policy makers and…
The Role of Art and Culture for Regional and Urban Resilience
New Media and New Economy Cluster Dynamics
Routledge Revivals: Localities (1989)
First published in 1989, this book examines seven different localities, ranging from the outer suburbs of large northern cities to small freestanding town, which were prospering in the 1980s or struggling against the negative employment effects of restructuring. Within the theoretical frame of ‘industrial restructuring’, it traces the development of each locality, exploring in depth the influence of several key elements — deindustrialisation, tec…
Recensioni. «Né lettere né bigliettini». Sulle strade dei Gap
The resilience of sustainability, creativity and social justice from the arts & crafts movement to modern day “eco-painting”
Ending Terrorism in Italy
Ending Terrorism in Italy analyses processes of disengagement from terrorism, as well as the connected issues of reconciliation, truth and justice. It examines in a critical and original way how terrorism came to an end in Italy (Part I), and the legacy it has left behind (Part II). The book interrogates a wide array of published memoirs and a considerable number of new face-to-face interviews with both former terrorists and first and second gene…
Back to the Future (RLE Social Theory): Modernity, Postmodernity and Locality
Green design aesthetics: Ten principles
La Resistenza come secondo Risorgimento: Un Topos Retorico Senza Fine
The Resistance as a second Risorgimento: a never-ending rhetorical topos? The article examines the long history of the rhetorical topos of the Resistance as a Second Risorgimento. The topos, though criticised in certain contexts, became a potent means of packaging the national/patriotic aspects of the partisan war. Although its popularity began to decline from the 1970s onwards, it is striking how the Resistance as a Second Risorgimento continues…
Red Spring: Italian Political Emigration to Czechoslovakia
This article describes Italian political emigration to Czechoslovakia
Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth
Constructing Regional Advantage: Platform Policies Based on Related Variety and Differentiated Knowledge Bases
ASHEIM B. T., BOSCHMA R. and COOKE P. Constructing regional advantage: platform policies based on related variety and differentiated knowledge bases, Regional Studies. This paper presents a regional innovation policy model based on the idea of constructing regional advantage. This policy model brings together concepts like related variety, knowledge bases and policy platforms. Related variety attaches importance to knowledge spillovers across com…
Regional innovation systems: Competitive regulation in the new Europe
Flexible Integration, Scope Economies, and Strategic Alliances: Social and Spatial Mediations
An outline of international productivity, competitiveness, and profitability indicators is given in support of the contention that capital has been reorganizing more or less successfully, albeit unevenly of late. There follows a discussion of the relative merits of two theories which seek to address what some have called the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism. It is argued that the notion of 'flexible accumulation', although superior in prin…
The changing urban and regional system in the United Kingdom
Cooke P. (1986) The changing urban and regional system in the United Kingdom, Reg. Studies 30, 243–251. The UK space economy has been subject to important structural shifts of late. The North has a disproportionately large amount of old capital stock and associated industry, and labour-shedding in response to international competition has been massive. The South is increasingly the location for newer, more buoyant economic activity. But there are…
Regional Systems of Innovation: An Evolutionary Perspective
The authors develop the concept of regional systems of innovation and relate it to preexisting research on national systems of innovation. They argue that work conducted in the 'new regional science' field is complementary to systems of innovation approaches. They seek to link new regional work to evolutionary economics, and argue for the development of evolutionary regional science. Common elements of interest to evolutionary innovation research…
Modernity, Postmodernity and the City
Modern Urban Theory in Question
The modem city gave rise to modern urban theory. Essentialist metaphors drawn from biology or economics have often been used to explain modern urban processes. Recently a literature has emerged which suggests a break has occurred between modern and post-modern ways of theorizing the city and other spheres of social life. A number of different critiques of this view are considered. Following a discussion of similarities and differences between the…
Social capital, firm embeddedness and regional development
Cooke P., Clifton N. and Oleaga M. (2005) Social capital, firm embeddedness and regional development, Regional Studies 39 , 1065–1077. This paper presents the results of a research project examining the effects of social capital on the performance of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in 12 UK regions. It first investigates the association between performance and social capital use at the firm level, then it seeks to move beyond the confi…
Clinical Inference and Geographic Theory
Regions in a global market: The experiences of Wales and Baden-Wurttemberg
This article sets the question of globalization of economic coordination (which it briefly criticizes) in the context of how such coordination is managed ‘on the ground’. The region, the sub-state administrative entity found in most advanced economies, is argued to be a crucial element not least because evolving processes of economic coordination increasingly depend upon regional economies. Increasingly, too, such economies come to depend for key…
Visionary, precautionary and constrained ‘varieties of devolution’ in the economic governance of the devolved UK territories
Cooke P. and Clifton N. (2005) Visionary, precautionary and constrained ‘varieties of devolution’ in the economic governance of the devolved UK territories, Regional Studies 39 , 437–451. This paper explores economic development financing and action, an important policy arena if lesser expenditure field in the devolved administrations. It sets evolution of this in historical and theoretical context. Since devolution in 1999, manufacturing job los…
The Contested Terrain of Locality Studies
Tertiarisation and socio-spatial differentiation in Wales
Class interests, regional restructuring and state formation in Wales
New technology and regional development in austerity Britain: The case of the semiconductor industry
Cooke P., Morgan K. and Jackson D. (1984) New technology and regional development in austerity Britain: the case of the semiconductor industry, Reg. Studies 18, 277–289. Britain's poor economic performance is partly a reflection of low levels of investment in new technology and a consequent failure to innovate in many sectors. Recent government policies have sought to shift industrial expenditure priorities towards stimulating innovation. Regiona…
Locality‐theory and the Poverty of ‘Spatial Variation’
Productive Decentralisation in Three European Regions
Recent work on nonmetropolitan industrialisation has tended to stress environmental attractiveness and the shortage of space for in situ expansion as the factors largely responsible for the process. The argument presented in this paper is that the process cannot adequately be understood in such terms. Some recipient locations are not especially environmentally attractive, and in other cases decentralisation has been to sizeable urban as well as r…
Labour market discontinuity and spatial development
Regional Restructuring: Class Politics and Popular Protest in South Wales
The question of whether class or territory is the stronger basis of social mobilisation is examined. It is suggested that the economic problems being experienced by many older industrial areas can give rise to regional coalitions that seek to transcend class antagonisms in order to press for state investment to improve regional growth and employment prospects. But it is further argued that, because of the heterogeneity of the sociospatial base in…
Life Sciences Clusters and Regional Science Policy
This paper focuses upon Life Sciences and the manner in which R&D-led clustering concentrates key resources such as basic research funding, research infrastructure and innovative businesses in a few clusters where even large pharmaceuticals firms are nowadays often learners (from academia) rather than research leaders, as in the past. Because Life Sciences and healthcare are strongly intertwined, and huge increases in healthcare R&D and general e…
The Golden Thread of Innovation' and Northern Ireland's Evolving Regional Innovation System
C OOKE P., R OPER S. and W YLIE P. (2003) "The golden thread of innovation' and Northern Ireland's evolving regional innovation system, Reg. Studies 37 , 365-379. The title embodies the belief, expressed in 2000 by Northern Ireland's Economic Development Minister, Sir Reg Empey, that innovation is the "golden thread' that must run through its economy and policy for the hitherto troubled part of the UK to recover its historic economic dynamism. Th…
Dependency, supply factors and uneven development in Wales and other problem regions
Cooke P. (1982) Dependency, supply factors and uneven development in Wales and other problem regions, Reg. Studies 16, 211–27. The regional problem has traditionally been defined in ways which distract attention away from inter-regional and inter-national economic forces. Features such as slow growth, poor economic integration and the incidence of external control appear to be region-specific failures to generate or meet demand. While these shoul…
Locality, Structure, and Agency: A Theoretical Analysis
Critical cosmopolitanism: Urban and regional studies into the 1990s
La Resistenza come secondo Risorgimento: Un Topos Retorico Senza Fine
The Resistance as a second Risorgimento: a never-ending rhetorical topos? The article examines the long history of the rhetorical topos of the Resistance as a Second Risorgimento. The topos, though criticised in certain contexts, became a potent means of packaging the national/patriotic aspects of the partisan war. Although its popularity began to decline from the 1970s onwards, it is striking how the Resistance as a Second Risorgimento continues…
Faludi's 'Sociology in Planning Education: A Critical Comment
Tertiarisation and socio-spatial differentiation in Wales
The Industrial Restructuring of South Wales: The Career of a State Managed Region
This paper examines the causes of the current economic crisis in the industrial region of South Wales. The authors maintain that past as well as current government policies have played a major role in bringing about the crisis by contributing to the vulnerability of communities in South Wales. The authors review the history of the policies which have contributed to the current steel and coal crises. They then provide a brief discussion of current…
Dependency, supply factors and uneven development in Wales and other problem regions
Cooke P. (1982) Dependency, supply factors and uneven development in Wales and other problem regions, Reg. Studies 16, 211–27. The regional problem has traditionally been defined in ways which distract attention away from inter-regional and inter-national economic forces. Features such as slow growth, poor economic integration and the incidence of external control appear to be region-specific failures to generate or meet demand. While these shoul…
Class interests, regional restructuring and state formation in Wales
Shorter Notices
Labour market discontinuity and spatial development
Regional Restructuring: Class Politics and Popular Protest in South Wales
The question of whether class or territory is the stronger basis of social mobilisation is examined. It is suggested that the economic problems being experienced by many older industrial areas can give rise to regional coalitions that seek to transcend class antagonisms in order to press for state investment to improve regional growth and employment prospects. But it is further argued that, because of the heterogeneity of the sociospatial base in…
Workers' plans: An alternative to entrepreneurialism
New technology and regional development in austerity Britain: The case of the semiconductor industry
Cooke P., Morgan K. and Jackson D. (1984) New technology and regional development in austerity Britain: the case of the semiconductor industry, Reg. Studies 18, 277–289. Britain's poor economic performance is partly a reflection of low levels of investment in new technology and a consequent failure to innovate in many sectors. Recent government policies have sought to shift industrial expenditure priorities towards stimulating innovation. Regiona…
Recent theories of political regionalism: A Critique and an Alternative Proposal
Class Practices as Regional Markers: A Contribution to Labour Geography
Between the generality of aggregate social structure, on the one hand, and the uniqueness of locale, on the other, there is a socio-spatial scale at which it is possible to place in focus the specificity of particular class formations. Moreover, such an apparently narrow focus can still shed light upon the mechanisms that tend to have a global effect upon the nature of class practices. In this study I will attempt to show how this scale, which fo…
Productive Decentralisation in Three European Regions
Recent work on nonmetropolitan industrialisation has tended to stress environmental attractiveness and the shortage of space for in situ expansion as the factors largely responsible for the process. The argument presented in this paper is that the process cannot adequately be understood in such terms. Some recipient locations are not especially environmentally attractive, and in other cases decentralisation has been to sizeable urban as well as r…
The changing urban and regional system in the United Kingdom
Cooke P. (1986) The changing urban and regional system in the United Kingdom, Reg. Studies 30, 243–251. The UK space economy has been subject to important structural shifts of late. The North has a disproportionately large amount of old capital stock and associated industry, and labour-shedding in response to international competition has been massive. The South is increasingly the location for newer, more buoyant economic activity. But there are…
Clinical Inference and Geographic Theory
Flexible Integration, Scope Economies, and Strategic Alliances: Social and Spatial Mediations
An outline of international productivity, competitiveness, and profitability indicators is given in support of the contention that capital has been reorganizing more or less successfully, albeit unevenly of late. There follows a discussion of the relative merits of two theories which seek to address what some have called the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism. It is argued that the notion of 'flexible accumulation', although superior in prin…
Modernity, Postmodernity and the City
Locality‐theory and the Poverty of ‘Spatial Variation’
The Contested Terrain of Locality Studies
Critical cosmopolitanism: Urban and regional studies into the 1990s
Modern Urban Theory in Question
The modem city gave rise to modern urban theory. Essentialist metaphors drawn from biology or economics have often been used to explain modern urban processes. Recently a literature has emerged which suggests a break has occurred between modern and post-modern ways of theorizing the city and other spheres of social life. A number of different critiques of this view are considered. Following a discussion of similarities and differences between the…
Locality, Structure, and Agency: A Theoretical Analysis
Uneasy Alliances: The Spatial Development of Computing and Communication Markets
This paper explores the role of geographical space as a dynamizing element in the economic development process. It builds on the insight that space makes a significant difference to business activity by virtue of the capacity to transform products into commodities through the purchasing power of geographically dispersed commodity consumers. Following a discussion of the implications of the growth of international and global market opportunities i…
Back to the Future
The Geography of International Strategic Alliances in the Telecommunications Industry: The Cases of Cable and Wireless, Ericsson, and Fujitsu
It is argued that the emerging spatial organisation of three telecommunications and computer firms can only be fully understood by reference to changing market and competitive contexts, and not by analysis of the forces of production alone. Strategic alliances are seen as an attempt by capital to cope with turbulent market conditions brought about by technical and regulatory change-and are part of a wider corporate and industrial restructuring pr…
Political science (55 works) · Economics (41 works) · Sociology (38 works) · Economic geography (30 works) · Business (28 works) · Computer Science (28 works) · Geography (27 works) · Law (27 works) · Regional Development and Policy (24 works) · Regional science (21 works)