Markus Grillitsch
Senior Lecturer
Unrelated knowledge combinations : The unexplored potential for regional industrial path development
Author
Summary, in English
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.
Department/s
- Department of Human Geography
- CIRCLE
Publishing year
2018-06-07
Language
English
Pages
257-274
Publication/Series
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
Volume
11
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- economic diversification
- industrial path development
- knowledge base combinations
- regional structural change
- related and unrelated variety
- specialisation and diversity
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1752-1378