ABSTRACT
As Soyez (chapter 11) reminds us, the research agenda of Industrial Geography has been slow to respond to the public and corporate priorities given to 'environmental imperatives'. In recent years, however, there are signs of a willingness to build upon earlier pioneering studies (Ullman, 1958; Thomas, 1968; Soyez, 1985) in a more serious contemplation of these imperatives for industrial location dynamics (Eden, 1996; Florida, 1996; Taylor, 1995; see also chapters 12-14 ). In this chapter, we contribute towards this contemplation within the framework of a model of the long run processes of industrialization, specifically the model of techno-economic paradigms (TEPs) pioneered in three papers by Perez ( 1985), Freeman ( 1987) and Freeman and Perez ( 1988).
