Jacobs Wouter

Wouter Jacobs

Urban and Regional Research Center
University of Utrecht
The Netherlands
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Dr. Wouter Jacobs (1979) has a background in Spatial Planning & Human Geography (MA, Radboud University Nijmegen). He received his PhD in Management (Radboud University Nijmegen) in 2007. In his PhD he developed an institutional economic framework to study the global maritime transport sector and to compare competition strategies and governance structures of seaports in Rotterdam, Los Angeles-Long Beach and Dubai. After his PhD, Wouter moved to the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Here he worked for 2.5 years, in close collaboration with Port of Rotterdam Authority and the City Development Cooperation of Rotterdam, on research on the commercial and geographical relationships between specialized advanced service providers (finance, insurance, consultancy) and seaport clusters. He was furthermore involved at ESE as coordinator and lecturer of the MSc-seminar Advanced Port & Transport Economics. Dr. Jacobs currently works for the Urban & Regional Research Center at Utrecht University where he is involved in research (commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs) on the co-evolution between Multi-national Enterprises (MNE) and knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) in the Amsterdam metropolitan region. Wouter’s current port related research builds upon the evolutionary economic geography perspective (EEG), with particular focus on processes of co-evolution between the maritime industry, technology and institutions in a regional context. He is member of the board of the Regional Science Association Netherlands and has held guest lectures at the Institute of Transport and Maritime Management in Antwerp and at the Urban Studies Program of Simon Fraser University Vancouver.

Articles in PortStudies Database

Jacobs, W., Ducruet, C. and De Langen, P.W. (2010). Integrating world cities into production networks: the case of port cities, Global Networks, 10(1), pp. 92-113.

Papers with PortEconomics members

Jacobs, W., Ducruet, C. and De Langen, P.W. (2010). Integrating world cities into production networks: the case of port cities, Global Networks, 10(1), pp. 92-113.

Jacobs W. and Notteboom, T. (2009). A Theory on the co-evolution of seaports with application to container terminal develoment in the Rhine-Scheldt Delta. Proceedings of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) 2009 Conference, Copenhagen, June 2009.

Other major publications

Jacobs, W. and T.E. Notteboom (2011), An evolutionary perspective on regional port systems: the role of windows of opportunity in shaping seaport competition, Environment & Planning A, in press.

Jacobs, W., Koster, H. and P.V. Hall (2011), The location and global network structure of maritime advanced producer services, Urban Studies, in press, available online: http://usj.sagepub.com/ content/early/2011/03/08/0042098010391294

Hall, P.V., Jacobs, W. and H. Koster (2011), Port, Corridor, Gateway and Chain. Exploring the geography of advanced maritime producer services, In: Hall, P.V., McCalla, R., Comtois, C. and B. Slack (eds), Integrating Seaports and Trade Corridors, p. 81-100, Farnham- Burlington: Ashgate.

Hall, P.V. and W. Jacobs (2010), Shifting Proximities: the maritime ports sector in era of global supply chains, Regional Studies, 44 (9): 1103-1115.

Jacobs, W. (2009), World Port City Networks. Exploring the geography of advanced producer services in the global shipping industry, Rotterdam: Erasmus University.

Hall, P.V. and W. Jacobs (2009), Ports in Proximity, Proximity in Ports, Towards an Typology, In: Notteboom, T.E., Ducruet, C. De Langen, P. (eds), Ports in Proximity: Competition and Coordination among Adjacent Seaports, p. 29-40, Ashgate: Alderschot

Jacobs, W. & P.V. Hall (2007), What conditions the supply chain strategies of ports? The case of Dubai, GeoJournal, 68, p. 327-342.

Jacobs, W. (2007), Political Economy of Port Competition. Institutional Analyses of Rotterdam, Southern California and Dubai, Nijmegen: Academic Press Europe.

Jacobs, W. (2007), Port Competition between Los Angeles and Long Beach. An Institutional Analysis, Tijdschrift voor de Economische en Sociale Geografie, 98, p. 360-372.