innovation and industrial upgrading in developing countries, the technological and institutional reasons for leapfrog development …

Although it is frequent, discontinuous (leapfrog) development has rarely been addressed by the literature, because …

Although it is frequent, discontinuous (leapfrog) development has rarely been addressed by the literature, because …

Discontinuous (leapfrog) development is a kind of urban sprawl, defined as a lack of continuity in expansion. This … article proceeds to make a survey of the theoretical explanations of leapfrog development. We follow a twofold explanation, in … line with the two traditionnal conceptions of space in economics. First, when space is homogeneous, leapfrog development is …

city boundary. This results in a “feasible zone” for exurban leapfrog development and another fundamental reason for …