Regional Branching and Regional Innovation Policy

Ron Boschma ()

A chapter in Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics, 2011, pp 359-368 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Regional diversification is high on the scientific and political agenda. As many regions are currently facing economic decline due to the economic crisis, there is increasing awareness that there is a need to develop new economic activities, in order to compensate for losses in other parts of their regional economies. Economic geographers have raised the question how to develop new growth paths in regions over and over again, but this question has largely remained unanswered until recently (Scott 1988; Storper and Walker 1989; Martin and Sunley 2006; Simmie and Carpenter 2007). For instance, there is still little understanding of how old industrial regions may overcome structural problems, such as congestion, overspecialization, a bad image, and inflexible institutions, which, according to many, make them unlikely places for new industries to emerge. However, some do quite well, while others do not, but there is still little known what are the reasons behind that (Hassink 2005).

Keywords: Knowledge Transfer; Regional Economy; Growth Path; Labor Mobility; Knowledge Diffusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (13)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-642-17940-2_17

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783642179402

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17940-2_17

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Advances in Spatial Science from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().