Economic Geography

Economic geography is characterised by a spatial approach to examine the organisation of economic activities, the relationships between these activities, and how economic agents interact with their environment. The scope of analysis ranges from local to global. At the Turku School of Economics, the core themes of teaching and research in economic geography include innovation processes and the labour in a technologically changing world, consumer behavior, retail geography (from local markets and e-commerce to global flows of goods), location planning, business applications of geographical information methods, strategic regional development (from the Turku archipelago to the Global South ), as well as international trade and trade policy. Sustainable development and corporate social responsibility are cross-cutting themes in our research and course offerings.