Industrial inheritances: Makers, relatedness and materiality in New York and Chicago

Max Eisenburger; Marc Doussard; Laura Wolf-Powers; Greg Schrock; Stephen Marotta

doi:10.1080/00343404.2019.1588460

Industrial inheritances: Makers, relatedness and materiality in New York and Chicago

Max Eisenburger, Marc Doussard, Laura Wolf-Powers, Greg Schrock, Stephen Marotta

Urban and Regional Planning

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As policy-makers and advocates seek to harness the ‘Maker movement’ for regional innovation and economic development, attention is turning to the role of regional ‘entrepreneurial ecosystems’ in supporting Makers’ growth potential. Through interviews with 92 Maker enterprises across three industry subsectors in two regions, the paper demonstrates how the materiality of manufacturing processes, products and end markets influences Makers’ growth trajectories, and their effects on the role of regional agglomeration economies. This adds an important material dimension to ongoing academic discussions of industry relatedness focused principally on knowledge transfer, and further suggests that targeted industrial retention may complement manufacturing entrepreneurship policies.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1625-1635
Number of pages	11
Journal	Regional Studies
Volume	53
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1588460
State	Published - Nov 2 2019

Keywords

Makers
economic development
evolutionary economic geography
industry relatedness
materiality
related variety

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Environmental Science(all)
Social Sciences(all)

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