  The discovery of collective effects in small collision systems, have spurred
a renewed interest in hadronization models, also as a source for collective
effects all the way to large collision systems, where they are usually ascribed
to the creation of a Quark--Gluon Plasma. In this topical mini-review, the
microscopic model for string interactions, based on the Lund string
hadronization model, developed with exactly this aim is reviewed, and some
prospects for the future presented.
