Related variety and regional growth in Spain

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 241-256

  Boschma, Ron ^a   Minondo, Asier ^b   Navarro, Mikel ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Porter's cluster; Product proximity; Regional growth; Related variety; Spain

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

SPAIN;

EID: 84862623407     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2011.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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