| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Regional Policy: A Sympathetic Critique | European Planning Studies | 2015 | 1,066 |
| 2 | Building global knowledge pipelines: The role of temporary clusters | European Planning Studies | 2006 | 504 |
| 3 | Industrial districts as ‘learning regions’: A condition for prosperity | European Planning Studies | 1996 | 497 |
| 4 | Bringing business clusters into the mainstream of economic development | European Planning Studies | 1997 | 451 |
| 5 | A critical review of entrepreneurial ecosystems research: towards a future research agenda | European Planning Studies | 2017 | 407 |
| 6 | EUROPEAN BRIEFING: Polycentricity in European spatial planning: from an analytical tool to a normative agenda | European Planning Studies | 2003 | 397 |
| 7 | How to unlock regional economies from path dependency? From learning region to learning cluster | European Planning Studies | 2005 | 333 |
| 8 | Location, agglomeration and innovation: Towards regional innovation systems in Norway? | European Planning Studies | 1997 | 324 |
| 9 | Towards an explanation of regional specialization and industry agglomeration | European Planning Studies | 1997 | 320 |
| 10 | Transforming governance: Challenges of institutional adaptation and a new politics of space1 | European Planning Studies | 2006 | 306 |
| 11 | Globalization and the Rise of City-regions | European Planning Studies | 2001 | 300 |
| 12 | Innovation in knowledge intensive industries: The nature and geography of knowledge links | European Planning Studies | 2006 | 297 |
| 13 | Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice | European Planning Studies | 2008 | 284 |
| 14 | Relational concepts of space and place: Issues for planning theory and practice | European Planning Studies | 1999 | 281 |
| 15 | An evolutionary integrated view of Regional Systems of Innovation: Concepts, measures and historical perspectives | European Planning Studies | 2005 | 281 |
| 16 | Evaluation of RTD in regional systems of innovation | European Planning Studies | 1998 | 253 |
| 17 | Decline and sprawl: an evolving type of urban development – observed in Liverpool and Leipzig | European Planning Studies | 2005 | 248 |
| 18 | Peripheralization: Theoretical Concepts Explaining Socio-Spatial Inequalities | European Planning Studies | 2015 | 248 |
| 19 | The Water Framework Directive: A New Directive for a Changing Social, Political and Economic European Framework | European Planning Studies | 2003 | 246 |
| 20 | Places and Spaces of Sustainability Transitions: Geographical Contributions to an Emerging Research and Policy Field | European Planning Studies | 2012 | 243 |
| 21 | Understanding the Innovation Impacts of Public Procurement | European Planning Studies | 2010 | 237 |
| 22 | Local Demonstrations for Global Transitions—Dynamics across Governance Levels Fostering Socio-Technical Regime Change Towards Sustainability | European Planning Studies | 2012 | 237 |
| 23 | Conceptualizing the Regional Roles of Universities, Implications and Contradictions | European Planning Studies | 2010 | 227 |
| 24 | Social Capital and Economic Performance: A Meta-analysis of 65 Studies | European Planning Studies | 2010 | 214 |
| 25 | Impacts of urban living labs on sustainability transitions: mechanisms and strategies for systemic change through experimentation | European Planning Studies | 2019 | 213 |
| 26 | Relational complexity and the imaginative power of strategic spatial planning | European Planning Studies | 2006 | 206 |
| 27 | The Economic Performance of European Cities and City Regions: Myths and Realities | European Planning Studies | 2013 | 202 |
| 28 | Path Dependence and New Technological Path Creation in the Danish Wind Power Industry | European Planning Studies | 2012 | 190 |
| 29 | Territorial Knowledge Dynamics: From the Proximity Paradigm to Multi-location Milieus | European Planning Studies | 2009 | 187 |
| 30 | Mapping Knowledge Space and Technological Relatedness in US Cities | European Planning Studies | 2013 | 186 |
| 31 | Of resilient places: planning for urban resilience | European Planning Studies | 2016 | 185 |
| 32 | The Local Sources of Market Formation: Explaining Regional Growth Differentials in German Photovoltaic Markets | European Planning Studies | 2012 | 182 |
| 33 | From theory to practice in smart specialization strategy: emerging limits and possible future trajectories | European Planning Studies | 2016 | 181 |
| 34 | Urban Planning and Sustainable Development | European Planning Studies | 2001 | 180 |
| 35 | Spatial Planning in the Network Society-Rethinking the Principles of Planning in the Netherlands | European Planning Studies | 2000 | 179 |
| 36 | Nodes, networks and proximities: on the knowledge dynamics of the Medicon Valley biotech cluster | European Planning Studies | 2004 | 176 |
| 37 | Life Cycle vs. Multiple Path Dependency in Industrial Districts | European Planning Studies | 2009 | 174 |
| 38 | Innovation Networks and Regional Development—Evidence from the European Regional Innovation Survey (ERIS): Theoretical Concepts, Methodological Approach, Empirical Basis and Introduction to the Theme Issue | European Planning Studies | 2000 | 171 |
| 39 | Knowledge and Information Networks in an Italian Wine Cluster | European Planning Studies | 2009 | 168 |
| 40 | Governing Carbon and Climate in the Cities: An Overview of Policy and Planning Challenges and Options | European Planning Studies | 2012 | 168 |
| 41 | University spin-off policies and economic development in Less successful regions: Learning from two decades of policy practice | European Planning Studies | 2005 | 166 |
| 42 | The Rise of the “City-region” Concept and its Development Policy Implications | European Planning Studies | 2008 | 166 |
| 43 | Transforming spatial planning policy in Mediterranean countries: Europeanization and domestic change | European Planning Studies | 2005 | 165 |
| 44 | Proximity, Knowledge and Innovation in Peripheral Regions. On the Intersection between Geographical and Organizational Proximity | European Planning Studies | 2007 | 163 |
| 45 | Measuring Regional Cohesion Effects of Large-scale Transport Infrastructure Investments: An Accessibility Approach | European Planning Studies | 2008 | 163 |
| 46 | Related variety and economic development: a literature review | European Planning Studies | 2016 | 159 |
| 47 | Why Do Cities Shrink? | European Planning Studies | 2011 | 157 |
| 48 | Measuring Polycentricity and its Promises | European Planning Studies | 2008 | 155 |
| 49 | Borders, bridges and branding: The transformation of the Øresund region into an imagined space | European Planning Studies | 2006 | 153 |
| 50 | Spatial Spillovers and Regional Growth: A Cognitive Approach | European Planning Studies | 2009 | 153 |
