. Within this context, as economic geographers, our concern in this paper is with the usefulness of the idea of emergence for … studying the economic landscape and its evolution. We examine three ÔordersÕ of emergence, and focus attention especially on … the third type, Ôdevelopmental or evolutionaryÕ emergence. Despite its limitations, the notion of third order emergence is …

palette of concepts, mechanisms and models of evolution and change, such as plasticity, robustness, evolvability, emergence …

Over the past two decades, the notion of ‘emergence’ has attracted increasing attention and controversy across the … usefulness of the idea of emergence for studying the economic landscape and its evolution. The paper considers in what sense …-order, second-order and third-order emergence, and trace through their implications for constructing an ‘emergence perspective’ in …