The revenge of the places that don’t matter

On Monday the 14th of October the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum hosted Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics, to talk about his well-cited article “The revenge of the places that don’t matter (and what to do about it)”. Commentators included Bo Rothstein, Professor in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, and Katrien Vanhaverbeke, Head of Unit for local and regional development at the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions.