Can the periphery survive innovation-led growth? Insights from Israel

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ID7366540
AutoresRaphael Bar‐el (0000-0003-3889-0881, autor correspondente), Sharon Hadad (0000-0003-2099-3217), Liran Maymoni (0000-0002-8157-0501), Ran Ben-Malka (0000-0003-1266-670X), Reut Megidish (0000-0002-2909-8692)
Ano2024
Volume11
Fascículo1
Páginas453-470
Data de publicação2024-07-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRegional Studies Regional Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2168-1376 • E-ISSN: 2168-1376
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21681376.2024.2374994
OpenAlexW4400985618
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas42

This article explores the question of the integration ability of peripheral regions into innovation-led growth. While previous research has suggested that peripheral regions may be at a disadvantage, recent studies have argued that there may be potential benefits to their integration into the innovation process. This article offers a different approach for the examination of this controversy. First, it uses knowledge-based occupations as a measure of innovation activity (instead of types of activities such as startups, high-tech activities or services). Second, it considers innovation advance under two perspectives: demand (as measured by types of occupations installed in a region) and supply (as measured by types of occupations of the resident labour force). We use regression analysis to compare trends in the last two decades in Israel.Although findings indicate a process of adaptation of both periphery and centre to the innovation trend (in terms of increasing relative growth of high-level occupations), both in terms of supply and demand, steady gaps between the growth coefficients lead to a process of degradation of the periphery: lower increase of skills in the periphery and lower adaptation of demand to increasing skills. This results in a higher commuting rate (or migration) of skilled workers from the periphery, a substantial relative concentration of blue-collar occupations and an increasing supply of unskilled workers to the centre.The prevention or attenuation of such a process requires the consideration of policy measures regarding the prevailing ecosystem factors

Business · Economic geography · Economics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Regional Development and Policy · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis