ABSTRACT
Economic geography encompasses a rich variety of research topics focused on regions, systems of regions, consumers, individual businesses, aggregations of businesses, and their trade relations. It has been my great fortune to be engaged in the practice of economic geography for over 40 years. In that time I have undertaken a wide variety of research projects of a largely applied nature that have been published in academic journals and books, and in a consulting environment.1 In this brief chapter I would like to address some lessons I’ve learned in the process of undertaking this research, using my own work as a basis for these lessons.
