Unrelated knowledge combinations : The unexplored potential for regional industrial path development
(2018) In Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 11(2). p.257-274- Abstract
The article engages in a critical discussion of the related variety/regional branching argument and foregrounds a more differentiated perspective on regional industrial path development. It contributes by (i) sharpening the definition of key concepts, namely specialisation and diversity, related and unrelated variety; (ii) discussing their relevance in local and nonlocal spaces; (iii) scrutinizing related variety as the source for regional branching; and (iv) developing a conceptual framework capturing the opportunity space for regional structural change that unveils the relevance of path upgrading, path importation, path branching, path diversification and new path creation as different forms of new path development.
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- author
- Grillitsch, Markus LU ; Asheim, Bjørn LU and Trippl, Michaela LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-06-07
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- economic diversification, industrial path development, knowledge base combinations, regional structural change, related and unrelated variety, specialisation and diversity
- in
- Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
- volume
- 11
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Oxford University Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85048632419
- ISSN
- 1752-1378
- DOI
- 10.1093/cjres/rsy012
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 3bdde230-9687-4360-9f02-307fbed5ae2a
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- 2018-06-29 11:31:44
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