Related variety and economic development: a literature review
By J. Content, Koen Frenken. 2016
220 citations recorded by the source corpus.
ABSTRACT Since the introduction of the related variety concept in 2007, a number of studies have been undertaken to analyse its effect on economic development. Our review of 21 studies makes clear that most studies find support for the initial hypothesis that related variety supports employment growth, though some studies suggest that the growth effects of related variety may be specific to knowledge-intensive sectors only. From the review, we list a number of further research questions regarding methodology, the role of unrelated variety, different forms of relatedness and the effect of related variety on knowledge production and entrepreneurship.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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- Relatedness, external linkages and regional innovation in Europe (2018, unknown): “While the external dimension is crucial to understand regional growth, it has been generally neglected by the related variety literature (Boschma, 2016; Content and Frenken, 2016), with only few exceptions (Boschma and Iammarino, 2009; Tavassoli and Carbonara, 2014).”
- Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks (2020, background): “But as critically noted in Boschma’s (2017, p. 357) recent Regional Studies annual lecture (see also Content & Frenken, 2016, p. 2108), much of: the literature on regional diversification has primarily focused on the role of local capabilities, showing that relatedness at the local scale is a…”
- Place-based innovation policy for industrial diversification in regions (2018, unknown): “(Content & Frenken, 2016, p. 1).”