references
- Balassa, B. 1965. Trade liberalization and revealed comparative advantage. Manchester School of Economics and Social Studies 33:99–123.
- Bathelt, H. 2003. Geographies of production: Growth regimes in spatial perspective 1—Innovation, institutions and social systems. Progress in Human Geography 27:763–778.
- Bathelt, H.; Munro, A. K.; and Spigel, B. 2011. Challenges of transformation: Innovation, re-bundling and traditional manufacturing in Canada’s technology triangle. Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography, No. 11.11., Utrecht, the Netherlands: Urban and Regional Research Centre, University of Utrecht.
- Bernard, A. B., and Jensen, J. B. 2004. Why some firms export. Review of Economics and Statistics 86:561–569.
- Bishop P., and Gripaios, P. 2010. Spatial externalities, relatedness and sector employment growth in Great Britain. Regional Studies 44:443–454.
- Blundell, R., and Bond, S. 1998. Initial conditions and moment restrictions in dynamic panel data models. Journal of Econometrics 87:115–143.
- Boschma, R. K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp, and R. R. Stough, pp. 359–368. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
- Boschma, R., and Frenken, K. H. Bathelt, M. P. Feldman, and D. F. Kogler, pp. 64–81. London: Routledge.
- Boschma, R. A., and Iammarino, S. 2009. Related variety, trade linkages and regional growth. Economic Geography 85:289–311.
- Boschma, R. A.; Minondo, A.; and Navarro, M. 2012. Related variety and regional growth in Spain. Papers in Regional Science 91:241–257.
- Boschma, R. A., and Wenting, R. 2007. The spatial evolution of the British automobile industry: Does location matter? Industrial and Corporate Change 16:213–238.
- Brachert, M.; Kubis, A.; and Titze, M. 2011. Related variety, unrelated variety and regional functions. Identifying sources of regional employment growth in Germany from 2003 to 2008. IWH Discussion Papers No. 15. Halle, Germany: Halle Institute for Economic Research.
- Buenstorf, G.; Fritsch, M.; and Medrano, L. F. 2010. Regional knowledge and the emergence of an industry: Laser systems production in West Germany, 1975–2005. Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography, No. 10.16. Utrecht, the Netherlands: Utrecht University.
- Buerger, M., and Cantner, U. 2011. The regional dimension of sectoral innovativeness: An empirical investigation of two specialized supplier and two science-based industries. Papers in Regional Science 90:373–393.
- Carlsson, B., and Stankiewicz, R. 1991. On the nature, function and composition of technological systems. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 1:93–118.
- Eriksson, R. 2011. Localized spillovers and knowledge flows: How does proximity influence the performance of plants? Economic Geography 87:127–152.
- Farjoun, M. 1994. Beyond industry boundaries: Human expertise, diversification and resource-related industry groups. Organization Science 5:185–199.
- Feenstra, R. C.; Lipsey, R. E.; Deng, H.; Ma, A. C.; and Mo, H. 2005. World trade flows: 1962–2000. NBER Working Paper 11040. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Feldman, M. P.; Francis, J.; and Bercovitz, J. 2005. Creating a cluster while building a firm. Entrepreneurs and the formation of industrial clusters. Regional Studies 39:129–141.
- Fornahl, D.; Henn, S.; and Menzel, M., eds. 2010. Emerging clusters. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.
- Frenken, K.; Van Oort, F. G.; and Verburg, T. 2007. Related variety, unrelated variety and regional economic growth. Regional Studies 41:685–697.
- Gertler, M. S. 2003. Tacit knowledge and the economic geography of context, or the undefinable tacitness of being (there). Journal of Economic Geography 3:75–99.
- Glaeser, E. L. 2005. Reinventing Boston: 1630–2003. Journal of Economic Geography 5:119–153.
- Greene, W. H. 2008. Econometric analysis, 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
- Hassink, R. 2005. How to unlock regional economies from path dependency? From learning region to learning cluster. European Planning Studies 13:521–535.
- Hausmann, R., and Hidalgo, C. A. 2010. Country diversification, product ubiquity, and economic divergence. Working Paper No. 201. Cambridge, Mass.: Center for International Development, Harvard University.
- Hausmann, R., and Klinger, B. 2007. The structure of the product space and the evolution of comparative advantage. Working Paper No. 146. Cambridge, Mass.: Center for International Development, Harvard University.
- Hidalgo, C. A. 2009. The dynamics of economic complexity and the product space over a 42 year period. Working Paper No. 189. Cambridge, Mass.: Center for International Development, Harvard University.
- Hidalgo, C. A.; Klinger, B.; Barabási, A. L.; and Hausmann, R. 2007. The product space conditions the development of nations. Science 317 (5837):482–487.
- Klepper, S. 2007. Disagreements, spinoffs, and the evolution of Detroit as the capital of the U.S. automobile industry. Management Science 53:616–631.
- Klepper, S., and Simon, K. L. 2000. Dominance by birthright. Entry of prior radio producers and competitive ramifications in the U.S. television receiver industry. Strategic Management Journal 21(10–11):997–1016.
- Lawson, C. 1999. Towards a competence theory of the region. Cambridge Journal of Economics 23:151–166.
- Markusen, A. 1996. Sticky places in slippery space: A typology of industrial districts. Economic Geography 72:293–313.
- Maskell, P. 2001. Towards a knowledge-based theory of the geographical cluster. Industrial and Corporate Change 10:921–943.
- Maskell, P., and Malmberg, A. 1999. The competitiveness of firms and regions: Ubiquitification and the importance of localized learning. European Urban and Regional Studies 6:9–25.
- Neffke, F.; Henning, M.; and Boschma, R. 2011. How do regions diversify over time? Industry relatedness and the development of new growth paths in regions. Economic Geography 87:237–265.
- Neffke, F., and Svensson Henning, M. 2008. Revealed relatedness: Mapping industry space. Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography, No. 8.19, Utrecht, the Netherlands: Urban and Regional Research Centre, University of Utrecht.
- Nooteboom, B. 2000. Learning and innovation in organizations and economies. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford, University Press.
- Porter, M. E. 2003. The economic performance of regions. Regional Studies 37:549–578.
- Quatraro, F. 2010. Knowledge coherence, variety and economic growth: Manufacturing evidence from Italian regions. Research Policy 39:1289–1302.
- Robertson, P. L., and Patel, P. R. 2007. New wine in old bottles: Technological diffusion in developed economies. Research Policy 36:708–721.
- Rosenberg, N., and Frischtak, R. 1983. Long waves and economic growth. A critical appraisal. American Economic Review 73:146–151.
- Simmie, J., and Carpenter, J., eds. 2007. Path dependence and the evolution of city regional development. Working Paper Series No. 197. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford Brookes University.
- Storper, M. 1992. The limits to globalization: Technology districts and international trade. Economic Geography 68:60–93.
- Storper, M.. 1995. The resurgence of regional economies, ten years later: The region as a nexus of untraded interdependencies. European Urban and Regional Studies 2:191–221.
- Strambach, S. R. A. Boschma and R. Martin, 406–431. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.
- Tanner, A. N. 2011. The place of new industries. The case of fuel cell technology and its technological relatedness to regional knowledge bases. Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography, No. 11.13. Utrecht, the Netherlands: Urban and Regional Research Centre, University of Utrecht.
- Teece, T. D.; Rumelt, R.; Dosi, G.; and Winter, S. 1994. Understanding corporate coherence: Theory and evidence. Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization 23:1–30.