Going beyond Relatedness

Regional Diversification Trajectories and Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) in Italian Regions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4043002
AutoresRoberto Antonietti (0000-0002-2172-4062, ‘Marco Fanno’ Department of Economics and Management University of Padova35123 Padova Italy), Sandro Montresor (0000-0002-1195-901X, Social Sciences Area Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)67100 L’Aquila Italy)
Año2021
Volumen97
Número2
Páginas187-207
Fecha de publicación2021-03-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00130095.2021.1920390
OpenAlexW3170875408
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas40

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

Biology · Business · Diversification (marketing strategy) · Econometrics · Economic geography · Economics · Endowment · Key (lock) · Logit · Political science · Ecology · Marketing · Regional Development and Policy · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Regional resilience and development