How Do Regions Diversify over Time? Industry Relatedness and the Development of New Growth Paths in Regions

By Frank M. H. Neffke, Martin Henning, Ron A. Boschma. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Regional Branching and Key Enabling Technologies: Evidence from European Patent Data (2017, background): “In both respects, important advances have been achieved, and the thesis has found supportive evidence in different geographic contexts (e.g., Neffke, Henning, and Boschma 2011; Boschma, Minondo, and Navarro 2013).”
Mapping Knowledge Space and Technological Relatedness in US Cities (2013, background): “Similar ideas are exploited by Neffke et al. (2011) to reveal path-dependence in the evolution of the industrial landscape in Sweden, and the more general concept of related variety is developed by Frenken et al. (2007) to explain differences in regional employment growth in the Netherlands.”
Renewable Energy Technology and Path Creation: A Multi-scalar Approach to Energy Transition in the UK (2012, background): “Endogenous creation by local actors, the adoption and adaptation of novel extra-regional knowledge through FDI or firm-internal knowledge pipelines and the recombination of existing knowledge bases may result in new path creation (Martin & Sunley, 2006 ; Neffke et al , 2011 ).”
Smart Specialization, Regional Growth and Applications to European Union Cohesion Policy (2015, background): “Inflows of new firms and the founding of new local firms are both systematically higher in fields which are technologically diversified, but also closely related to the existing dominant fields of the region, while outflows of firms or firm failures are more likely in sectors unrelated to the existi”
Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance (2014, positive): “Several studies suggest that the emergence of new industries in a region is affected by the pre-existing industry composition of the region (Swann, 1998; Porter, 1998; Klepper, 2007, 2010; Neffke et al., 2011).”
Smart specialization policy in the European Union: relatedness, knowledge complexity and regional diversification (2019, methodology): “, 2009, 2011) with the regional diversification (Hidalgo et al., 2007; Neffke et al., 2011) and economic complexity literature (Hidalgo & Hausmann, 2009).”
Regional Branching Reconsidered: Emergence of the Fuel Cell Industry in European Regions (2014, background): “First, the literature lacks a thorough understanding of the mechanisms that drive regional branching (Neffke et al. 2011a).”
From smart specialisation to smart specialisation policy (2014, background): “As a result, “regions diversify by branching into industries that are related to their current industries” (Neffke et al., 2009).”
Regional industrial path development in different regional innovation systems: A conceptual analysis (2014, background): “…supplement these notions of path dependent processes that focus on continuity and lock-in with alternative paths that reflect changes that may follow from different forms of reorientation of the regional economy (Garud et al. 2010; Martin 2010, 2012; Neffke et al. 2011; Boschma 2014a).”
Cluster Evolution and a Roadmap for Future Research (2011, background): “Some studies point to the importance of related diversification (NEFFKE et al., 2011).”
Industrial Dynamics and Clusters: A Survey (2015, methodology): “…the phenomenon of regional branching has been found using systematic statistical data, including studies on Swedish regions in the period 1969–2002 (NEFFKE et al., 2011b), Spanish regions in the period 1988–2008 (BOSCHMA et al., 2013), and US regions for the period 1977–97 (ESSLETZBICHLER, 2013).”
Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda (2017, positive): “The product relatedness measure by Neffke et al. (2011), for instance, captures technological relatedness in production between products.”
Economic and environmental benefits of using textile waste for the production of thermal energy (2018, background): “The Vale do Ave, which is home to the highest number of textile companies in the north of Portugal, has about 150 years of textile manufacture tradition and habituation to an industrial model that has involved, directly or indirectly, the majority of its population (Neffke et al., 2011).”
The Emergence of New Industries at the Regional Level in Spain: A Proximity Approach Based on Product Relatedness (2013, positive): “Various measures of technological relatedness between industries have been developed and applied (see, e.g., Farjoun 1994; Teece et al. 1994; Porter 2003; Frenken et al. 2007; Neffke et al. 2011).”