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Richard Shearmur

Richard Shearmur

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
7551
World Ranking
4746
National Ranking
285

Overview

Richard Shearmur is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to several fields within the social sciences, especially focusing on economics, urban studies, and regional development. Their research predominantly explores spatial and economic dynamics, innovation, and location-based work patterns.

The scientist's recent papers cover a variety of topics related to innovation, geography, and urban studies. Titles include:

  • "Drivers of eco-innovation and conventional innovation in the Canadian wine industry" (2020, Journal of Cleaner Production)
  • "Liability or opportunity? Reconceptualizing the periphery and its role in innovation" (2022, Journal of Economic Geography)
  • "Conceptualising and measuring the location of work: Work location as a probability space" (2020, Urban Studies)
  • "Does location matter? STI and DUI innovation modes in different geographic settings" (2022, Technovation)
  • "Innovation, scaling-up, and local development in peripheral regions: do establishments scale-up locally?" (2022, ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography)

Shearmur collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • David Doloreux
  • John I. Carruthers
  • Natasha T. Duncan
  • Canfei He
  • Shengjun Zhu

Their work has been published most frequently in venues such as:

  • Growth and Change
  • Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes
  • Urban Studies
  • Geoforum
  • Journal of Economic Geography

Richard Shearmur's main fields of study encompass:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Their subfields of interest include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Urban Studies
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Marketing
  • Strategy and Management

The scientist's research engages with a range of key topics such as:

  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Regional resilience and development
  • Regional Development and Policy
  • French Urban and Social Studies
  • Wine Industry and Tourism
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms

Best Publications

  • Comparing alternative approaches to measuring the geographical accessibility of urban health services: Distance types and aggregation-error issues

    Philippe Apparicio;Mohamed Abdelmajid;Mylène Riva;Mylène Riva;Richard Shearmur

  • The case of Montréal's missing food deserts: Evaluation of accessibility to food supermarkets

    Philippe Apparicio;Marie-Soleil Cloutier;Marie-Soleil Cloutier;Richard Shearmur

  • Are cities the font of innovation? A critical review of the literature on cities and innovation

    Richard Shearmur

  • Agglomeration and Dispersion of High-order Service Employment in the Montreal Metropolitan Region, 1981-96:

    William J. Coffey;Richard G. Shearmur

  • Why some regions will decline: A Canadian case study with thoughts on local development strategies*

    Mario Polèse;Richard Shearmur

  • Collaboration, information and the geography of innovation in knowledge intensive business services

    David Doloreux;Richard Shearmur

  • Innovation, Regions and Proximity: From Neo-Regionalism to Spatial Analysis

    Richard Shearmur

  • A Tale of Four Cities: Intrametropolitan Employment Distribution in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Ottawa – Hull, 1981 – 1996:

    Richard Shearmur;William J Coffey

  • Urban Hierarchy or Local Buzz? High-Order Producer Service and (or) Knowledge-Intensive Business Service Location in Canada, 1991–2001

    Richard Shearmur;David Doloreux

  • Is Distance Really Dead? Comparing Industrial Location Patterns over Time in Canada:

    Mario Polèse;Richard Shearmur

  • Intrametropolitan Patterns of High-order Business Service Location: A Comparative Study of Seventeen Sectors in Ile-de-France

    Richard Shearmur;Christel Alvergne

  • Science Parks: Actors or Reactors? Canadian Science Parks in Their Urban Context

    Richard Shearmur;David Doloreux

  • Intrametropolitan Employment Structure: Polycentricity, Scatteration, Dispersal and Chaos in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, 1996-2001

    Richard Shearmur;William Coffey;Christian Dube;Rémy Barbonne

  • Do Local Factors Explain Local Employment Growth? Evidence from Canada, 1971–2001

    Richard Shearmur;Mario Polèse

  • The Growth and Location of High Order Services in the Canadian Urban System, 1971–1991

    William J. Coffey;Richard G. Shearmur

  • Exploring and comparing innovation patterns across different knowledge intensive business services

    David Doloreux;Richard Shearmur

  • Growth and Location of Economic Activity: The Spatial Dynamics of Industries in Canada 1971–2001

    Mario Polèse;Richard Shearmur

  • Far from the Madding Crowd: Slow Innovators, Information Value, and the Geography of Innovation

    Richard Shearmur

  • Variety in external knowledge sourcing and innovation novelty: Evidence from the KIBS sector in Spain

    Mercedes Rodriguez;David Doloreux;David Doloreux;Richard Shearmur

  • Travel From Home: An Economic Geography of Commuting Distances in Montreal

    Richard Shearmur

  • Place, Space and Distance: Towards a Geography of Knowledge‐Intensive Business Services Innovation

    Richard Shearmur;David Doloreux

Frequent Co-Authors

David Doloreux
David Doloreux HEC Montréal
Donald Huisingh
Donald Huisingh University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Susan Hanson
Susan Hanson Clark University
Elvin Wyly
Elvin Wyly University of British Columbia
Xiaoling Zhang
Xiaoling Zhang University of Hong Kong

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