The exaggerated death of geography: learning, proximity and territorial innovation systems
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Globalization and digitalization have been presented as ineluctable forces which signal the `death of geography'. The paper takes issue with this fashionable narrative. The argument that `geography matters' is pursued in three ways: ®rst, by questioning the `distance-destroying' capacity of information and communication technologies where social depth is con ̄ated with spatial reach; second, by arguing that physical proximity may be essential for some forms of knowledge exchange; and third, by charting the growth of territorial innovation systems.
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