Visualizing the ‘global knowledge economy’

Abstract

In a structuralist reading, the hegemonies of the global economy are perceived as threateningly fixed. We suggest understanding the global knowledge economy as an always unfinished project of ordering socio-spatial relations. To better communicate the struggles of peripherally located places/companies associated with this process of spatial ordering, we provide a simplified visualization of the global knowledge economy.

Keywords

• global economy
• global knowledge economy
• global south
• global east
• peripheral innovation
• world cities
• global disparities