Chair: Jonathan Potter Max-Peter Menzel – ‘The Production of Links: Value Creation in Contemporary Capitalism’ Andrew Cumbers, Stuart Dawley, Danny MacKinnon, Robert McMaster and Andy Pike – ‘Recovering the Social in Regional Development: Alternative Pathways in Evolutionary Economic Geography’ Robert Hassink and Huiwen Gong – ‘The Integrative Paradigm of Economic Geography as an Answer to Current Regional Challenges’ Round up Discussion