The Emergence of New Industries at the Regional Level in Spain: A Proximity Approach Based on Product Relatedness

Economic Geography

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-51

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

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capabilities; Diversification; New industries; Proximity index; Regional branching; Spain

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; EXPORT; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE;

SPAIN;

EID: 84871163844     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: 19448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2012.01170.x     Document Type: Article

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