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Meric Gertler is an internationally known scholar who has made original contributions in the fields of capital markets and regional development, flexible production, the innovation process in manufacturing, the spatial clustering of firms, and the geographical foundations of the new economy. His path-setting research in these fields has helped set the research agenda in economic geography, and in such associated disciplines as urban planning and economics, for over two decades. His latest work, summarized in a forthcoming book on the culture of manufacturing, examines the social norms and institutions that form part of the learning process underpinning changes in the production process and in the ability of firms to adopt new technological innovations. This conceptualization will likely set the research agenda for another decade or more.

SHORT
Meric Gertler is an internationally known scholar who has made original contributions in the fields of capital markets and regional development, flexible production, the innovation process in manufacturing, the spatial clustering of firms, and the geographical foundations of the new economy. His latest work, on the culture of manufacturing, will likely set the research agenda for another decade or more.