Opening up the ‘Jacobs Spillovers’ black box: local diversity, creativity and the processes underlying new combinations

By Pierre Desrochers, Samuli Leppälä. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Regional economic resilience in China: measurement and determinants (2021, background): “That is, a diversified industrial structure can alleviate external shocks, and contribute to a region’s economic stability, especially when the external shock is specific to a given industry (Desrochers & Leppälä, 2011).”
Related Variety, Unrelated Variety and Technological Breakthroughs: An analysis of US State-Level Patenting (2015, unknown): “These particularly include the facts that formal novelty requirements have to be met to have a patent granted and that all patents are assigned to technological classes by independent and knowledgeable experts (SMITH, 2005). In a well-known early contribution to the literature, ACS et al. (1992) fou”
Migrant and ethnic diversity, cities and innovation: Firm effects or city effects? (2015, background): “However, it may also be the case that migrant or ethnic diversity helps firms introduce new products or processes from other countries which are in use in other firms (Desrochers and Leppälä, 2011).”
The emerging empirics of evolutionary economic geography (2011, background): “Fourth, studies have attempted to ‘open the black box’ of knowledge spillovers as a source of agglomeration externalities by specifically examining the channels through which such spillovers are expected to occur (Almeida and Kogut, 1999; Breschi and Lissoni, 2001; Giuliani, 2007; Desrochers and Lep”
Relatedness, external linkages and regional innovation in Europe (2018, unknown): “Even local unrelated activities may become related when they are successfully combined, eventually becoming redundant too (Boschma, 2016; Desrochers and Leppälä, 2011).”
Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda (2017, unknown): “Relatedness would become dynamic itself: previously unrelated activities become related as soon as they are connected in successful new combinations (Castaldi et al., 2015; Desrochers & Leppälä, 2011).”