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 Robert Hassink,  Arne Isaksen &#38;  Michaela Trippl (2018)Papers in Economic Geography and Innovation StudiesAbstract.  New regional industrial path development is a key concept in economic geography, as it contributes to explaining regional economic inequalities and forms the basis for place-based innovation policies. So far, particularly scholars within the Utrecht school of evolutionary economic geography have pioneered research on this topic. In this paper, we critically discuss their work and conclude that their understanding of path development is too narrow. We develop a future research agenda, which stresses the need to develop a multi-actor and multiscalar approach, to integrate the future into analyses of path development and to offer a broader view on inter-path relations. Excerpt: "Third, expectations, visions and conventions are key to analyze in future research on new path development. How do shared expectations, visions and conventions come into place and what role does colocation play in that process? How do they influence new path development? Why do shared expectations, visions and conventions in some cases contribute to new path development and why do they in other cases block new path development? In answering these questions, EEG scholars can, as suggested by Steen (2016b), draw on the literature from socio-technical transitions and the sociology of expectations (Borup et al., 2006)."Keywords: new regional industrial path development; multi-actor approach, multiscalar approach, inter-path relations.Download the paper (via ResearchGate)