Going beyond Relatedness: Regional Diversification Trajectories and Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) in Italian Regions

IF 7.2 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Economic Geography Pub Date : 2021-03-15 DOI:10.1080/00130095.2021.1920390

R. Antonietti, Sandro Montresor

引用次数: 13

Abstract

abstract We propose a new approach to regional diversification that, going beyond relatedness, investigates regions’ capacity to move along different diversification trajectories. By integrating evolutionary economic geography and transition studies, we focus on the patterns of regional diversification that emerge by retaining its place and path dependence and argue that local endowment of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) has a role in their sequential unfolding for escaping lock-in situations. Combining patent and employment data for Italian NUTS-3 regions, we run a series of ordered logit models and find that regions with more KETs knowledge are actually better able to engage in unrelated diversification trajectories but only when KETs are used by other local technologies.

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超越关联：意大利地区的区域多元化轨迹和关键使能技术

我们提出了一种新的区域多元化方法，该方法超越相关性，调查区域沿着不同多元化轨迹发展的能力。通过整合进化经济地理学和转型研究，我们重点关注通过保留其位置和路径依赖性而出现的区域多样化模式，并认为关键使能技术（KET）的地方禀赋在其摆脱锁定局面的顺序发展中发挥了作用。结合意大利NUTS-3地区的专利和就业数据，我们运行了一系列有序的logit模型，发现具有更多KET知识的地区实际上能够更好地参与不相关的多样化轨迹，但只有当KET被其他当地技术使用时。

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Economic Geography Multiple-

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9.70

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2.90%

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