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Economic dynamics has always been accompanied by spatial dynamics: economic heartlands come and go. The economic history of mankind shows many fluctuations in the functioning of major economic power blocks. For example, the dominant position of Western Europe is in fact fairly recent (see Olson, 1982). But within Western Europe remarkable shifts can also be observed during recent centuries, for instance, from Italy to the Iberian Peninsula and then to North-West Europe. Major changes have taken place in Europe, especially since the Industrial Revolution in which — besides geographical shifts of economic core areas — drastic (inter)sectoral shifts have also been observed (cf. Suarez-Villa, 1989). In recent years there has been an increasing recognition of the rise in economic importance of the regions around the Alps: the ‘European Snowbelt’. This snowbelt comprises the following regions: Baden-Württemberg, Lombardia, Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, and Switzerland and Austria. The rapid growth of the European Snowbelt is not only reflected in the rise in service employment in these areas, but also in the emergence of innovative new technology firms. This development seems to confirm the popular view that industries of tomorrow are not being established in the industrial regions of the past.
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Blaas, E., Nijkamp, P. (1994). New Technology and Regional Development in the European Snowbelt Towards a New Emerging Network?. In: Johansson, B., Karlsson, C., Westin, L. (eds) Patterns of a Network Economy. Advances in Spatial and Network Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78898-7_17
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