In recent years, economic geographers have seized on the concepts of 'path dependence' and 'lock-in' as key ingredients in constructing an evolutionary approach to their subject. However, they have tended to invoke these notions without proper examination of the ongoing discussion and debate...

Our focus in this paper is on a somewhat curious feature of evolutionary economic geography, namely that although concerned with evolution - with processes of historical change and transformation - evolutionary economic geography seems not to take history as seriously as it would be expected to...