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Neighbor regions as the source of new industries
Boschma, Ron; Martín, Víctor; Minondo, Asier - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2015
The development of new industries demands access to local capabilities. Little attention has yet been paid to the role of spillovers from neighbor regions for industrial diversification, nor has the role of network linkages between neighbor regions been investigated. As the spread of...
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The emergence of new industries at the regional level in Spain. A proximity approach based on product-relatedness
Boschma, Ron; Minondo, Asier; Navarro, Mikel - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012
How do regions diversify over time? Inspired by recent studies, we argue that regions diversify into industries that make use of capabilities in which regions are specialized. As the spread of capabilities occurs through mechanisms that have a strong regional bias, we expect that capabilities...
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Related variety and regional growth in Spain
Boschma, Ron; Minondo, Asier; Navarro, Mikel - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2010
This paper investigates whether related variety, among other types of spatial externalities, affected regional growth in Spain at the NUTS 3 level during the period 1995-2007. We found evidence that related variety matters for growth across regions, especially when measured with the assistance...
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Theoretical advancement in economic geography by engaged pluralism
Robert; Klaerding, Claudia - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012
Economic geographers have recently been confronted with attempts to constitute a new paradigm of evolutionary economic geography. The paper aims at advancing theoretical economic geography by reviewing its core critique and proposed solutions, particularly that of integrating the perspective of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493986
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The emergence of new technology-based sectors at the regional level: a proximity-based analysis of nanotechnology
Colombelli, Alessandra; Krafft, Jackie; Quatraro, Francesco - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012
This paper analyzes the emergence of new technology-based sectors at the regional level. We focus on the specific case of nanotechnology as representative of an industry based on a technology still in infancy whose evolution can be reliably traced on the basis of filed patent submissions. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010569177
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How do regions diversify over time? Industry relatedness and the development of new growth paths in regions
Neffke, Frank; Henning, Martin; Boschma, Martin Ron - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2009
The question of how new regional growth paths emerge has been raised by many leading economic geographers. From an evolutionary perspective, there are strong reasons to believe that regions are most likely to branch into industries that are technologically related to the preexisting industries...
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Related Variety, Global Connectivity and Institutional Embeddedness: Internet Development in Beijing and Shanghai Compared
Zhang, Jun - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2011
varietyÕ to compare the emerging internet industry in ChinaÕs two largest city-regions: Beijing and Shanghai. Official website … registration records, Alexa internet traffic counts, venture capital investment data and information gathered through interviews … with internet entrepreneurs were combined to develop the analysis. The findings confirm that the replication and …
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Why is economic geography not an evolutionary science? Towards an evolutionary economic geography
Boschma, Ron A.; Frenken, Koen - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2005
The paper explains the commonalities and differences between neoclassical, institutional and evolutionary approaches that have been influential in economic geography during the last couple of decades. For all three approaches, we argue that they are in agreement in some respects and in conflict...
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An evolutionary perspective on Internet adoption by retailers in the Netherlands
Boschma, Ron A.; Weltevreden, Jesse W.J. - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2006
examines empirically the extent to which the adoption of Internet strategies is affected by firm-specific features (e …, the probability of having an Internet strategy increases significantly when (a) the more knowledge spillovers are locally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133022
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Relatedness and Diversification in the EU-27 and ENP countries
Boschma, Ron; Capone, Gianluca - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014
This paper analyzes the process of industrial diversification in the EU-27 and ENP countries in the period 1995-2010 by means of world trade data derived from the BACI database (elaborated UN Comtrade data). Our results show that in both the EU-27 and the ENP countries, the evolution of the...
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