How Do Regions Diversify over Time? Industry Relatedness and the Development of New Growth Paths in Regions

Economic Geography

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 237-265

  Neffke, Frank ^a,b   Henning, Martin ^c   Boschma, Ron ^d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolutionary economic geography; Regional branching; Regional diversification; Related variety; Technological relatedness

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MANUFACTURING; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

LINKOPING; OSTERGOTLAND; SWEDEN;

EID: 79959368670     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: 19448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2011.01121.x     Document Type: Article

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