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Meric S. Gertler

Meric S. Gertler

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
21203
World Ranking
3975
National Ranking
239

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Meric S. Gertler is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, as well as communication.

Their recent scholarly contributions include the paper titled The public university and the retreat from globalisation: An economic geography perspective on managing local-global tensions in international higher education, published in 2020 in the journal Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Eric Knight
  • Andrew Jones

The venues most often chosen for publication are:

  • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space

Meric S. Gertler's main fields of study are:

  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of study include:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Communication

The key research topics addressed in their work cover:

  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Regional Development and Policy
  • International Student and Expatriate Challenges

Meric S. Gertler has been recognized through election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003, associated with the Academy of Social Sciences. Additionally, they are a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The Geography of Innovation: Regional Innovation Systems

    Bjørn T. Asheim;Meric S. Gertler

  • Tacit knowledge and the economic geography of context, or The undefinable tacitness of being (there)

    Meric S. Gertler

  • “Being There”: Proximity, Organization, and Culture in the Development and Adoption of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

    Meric S. Gertler

  • The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography

    Gordon L. Clark;Meric S. Gertler;Maryann P. Feldman

  • The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography

    Gordon L. Clark;Meric S. Gertler;Maryann P. Feldman;Dariusz Wójcik;Dariusz Wójcik;Dariusz Wójcik

  • Clusters from the Inside and Out: Local Dynamics and Global Linkages

    David A. Wolfe;Meric S. Gertler

  • The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography

    Gordon L. Clark;Maryann P. Feldman;Meric S. Gertler;Kate Williams

  • Local Nodes in Global Networks: The Geography of Knowledge Flows in Biotechnology Innovation

    Meric S Gertler;Yael M Levitte

  • Rules of the Game: The Place of Institutions in Regional Economic Change

    Meric S. Gertler

  • Manufacturing Culture: The Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice

    Meric S. Gertler

  • The Limits of Flexibility: Comments on the Post-Fordist Vision of Production and Its Geography

    Meric S. Gertler

  • Best Practice? Geography, Learning and the Institutional Limits to Strong Convergence

    Meric S. Gertler

  • Do Clusters Make a Difference? Defining and Assessing their Economic Performance

    Gregory M. Spencer;Tara Vinodrai;Meric S. Gertler;David A. Wolfe

  • Local social knowledge management: Community actors, institutions and multilevel governance in regional foresight exercises

    Meric S. Gertler;David A. Wolfe

  • The Invention of Regional Culture

    Meric Gertler

  • Regional Dynamics: Studies in Adjustment Theory

    Gordon L. Clark;Meric S. Gertler;John E. M. Whiteman

  • Flexibility Revisited: Districts, Nation-States, and the Forces of Production

    Meric S. Gertler

  • No place like home? The embeddedness of innovation in a regional economy

    Meric S. Gertler;David A. Wolfe;David Garkut

  • Competing on Creativity: Placing Ontario's Cities in North American Context

    Meric S. Gertler;Richard Florida;Gary Gates;Tara Vinodrai

  • SPACES OF KNOWLEDGE FLOWS: CLUSTERS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

    Meric S. Gertler;David A. Wolfe

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Wolfe
David A. Wolfe University of Western Ontario
Björn Asheim
Björn Asheim University of Stavanger
Richard Florida
Richard Florida University of Toronto
Harald Bathelt
Harald Bathelt University of Toronto
Trevor J. Barnes
Trevor J. Barnes University of British Columbia
Erik Swyngedouw
Erik Swyngedouw University of Manchester

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