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.

摘要

我们提出了一种区域多样化的新方法，该方法超越了相关性，研究了区域沿着不同多样化轨迹移动的能力。通过整合演化经济地理学和转型研究，我们关注通过保留其位置和路径依赖而出现的区域多元化模式，并认为关键使能技术 (KET) 的地方禀赋在其顺序展开中发挥作用，以摆脱锁定情况。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 logit 模型，发现拥有更多 KET 知识的地区实际上能够更好地从事不相关的多元化轨迹，但前提是 KET 被其他本地技术使用。