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Unrelated knowledge combinations: the unexplored potential for regional industrial path development
Markus GrillitschMichaela TripplMichaela TripplBjörn Asheimsubject
Economics and EconometricsSociology and Political Sciencebusiness.industry05 social sciencesGeography Planning and Development0211 other engineering and technologies0507 social and economic geographyPath creation021107 urban & regional planning02 engineering and technologyDiversification (marketing strategy)Critical discussionGeographyConceptual frameworkArtificial intelligenceEconomic geographybusiness050703 geographydescription
The paper 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 non-local spaces, iii) scrutinizing related variety as 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.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-14 | Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society |