The Emergence of New Industries at the Regional Level in Spain: A Proximity Approach Based on Product Relatedness
The Emergence of New Industries at the Regional Level in Spain: A Proximity Approach Based on Product Relatedness
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1944-8287.2012.01170.x
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
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7
通讯作者：
Navarro, Mikel
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作者：
Boschma, Ron;Minondo, Asier;Navarro, Mikel
区域如何随着时间的推移而多样化？受最近研究的启发，我们认为，地区多样化的产业，利用能力，在该地区是专门的。由于能力的传播是通过具有强烈区域倾向性的机制进行的，因此我们预计，区域一级现有的能力比国家一级现有的能力在发展新产业方面发挥更大的作用。为了验证这一假设，我们分析了在1988 - 2008年期间，在NUTS 3水平的50个西班牙地区的新产业的出现。我们计算了西班牙地区新出口产品和现有出口产品之间的能力距离，并提供了计量经济学证据，表明这些地区倾向于多样化发展新产业，这些新产业使用与这些地区现有产业类似的能力。我们发现，接近区域产业结构发挥了更大的作用，在新产业的出现在地区比接近国家产业结构。这一发现表明，区域一级的能力能够促进新产业的发展。
How do regions diversify over time? Inspired by recent studies, we argue that regions diversify into industries that make use of capabilities in which regions are specialized. Since the spread of capabilities occurs through mechanisms that have a strong regional bias, we expect that capabilities that are available at the regional level play a larger role than do capabilities that are available at the country level for the development of new industries. To test this hypothesis, we analyze the emergence of new industries in 50 Spanish regions at the NUTS 3 level in the period 19882008. We calculate the capability-distance between new export products and existing export products in Spanish regions and provide econometric evidence that regions tend to diversify into new industries that use similar capabilities as existing industries in these regions. We show that proximity to the regional industrial structure plays a much larger role in the emergence of new industries in regions than does proximity to the national industrial structure. This finding suggests that capabilities at the regional level enable the development of new industries.