出版社：Matej Bel University, Department of Geography and Geology
摘要：The development of industrial geography and its research objectives fol-lowed path of the development of industry as an economic sector. However, the fun-damental development of the discipline starts up in the seventies of the 20th century. The first part of article is devoted to the development of changes in the research objectives in a historical perspective. In the second part, the article presents a brief overview of the research directions of industrial geography since the first theories of geographical localization to the contemporary research focuses always on the spatial organization of industry and industrial production networks and on the topic of eco-nomic, social and spatial implications of incoming Industry 4.0.
关键词：industrial geography;research objectives;research directions;localiza-tion theories and spatial organization of industry
