Import Flows: Extraregional Linkages Stimulating Renewal of Regional Sectors?

Andersson, Martin; Bjerke, Lina; Karlsson, Charlie

doi:10.1068/a45732

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“…A promising research avenue is to assess the role of extra-regional linkages more systematically, as new combinations are likely to depend on both local and non-local inputs. Andersson, Bjerke, and Karlsson (2013) found a positive effect of high-quality imports on the introduction of new high-quality export products in regions, suggesting import spillover effects at the regional scale. The same study found that openness of a regional economy had a positive influence on such economic renewal in regions.…”

Section: The Need For More Geographical Wisdommentioning

confidence: 93%

Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda

2016

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Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda. Regional Studies. The regional diversification literature claims that regions diversify in new activities related to their existing activities from which new activities draw on and combine local capabilities. The paper offers a critical assessment and identifies a number of crucial issues for future research. It calls for (1) a disentanglement of the various types of capabilities that make regions diversify; (2) the inclusion of more geographical wisdom in the study of regional diversification, like a focus on the effects of territoryspecific contexts, such as institutions; (3) a thorough investigation in the conditioning factors of related and unrelated diversification in regions; and (4) a micro-perspective on regional diversification that assesses the role of economic and institutional agents in a multi-scalar perspective.

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Section: The Need For More Geographical Wisdommentioning

confidence: 93%

Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda

2016

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“…However, research has also shown that international import networks can be a vehicle for the inflow of knowledge and technology from abroad, and a stimulus for new ideas conducive to the renewal and upgrading of a region's export sector (Malecki ; Andersson et al . ). Connected and porous communities can also benefit from human capital inflows, including entrepreneurial in‐migration (Stockdale ; Atterton ; Bosworth ), social capital accrual (Putnam ), and access to opportunity‐rich business networks, which are increasingly supported by digital networks (Lin ).…”

Section: A Cohesive and Connected Countryside?mentioning

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The Community Reclaims Control? Learning Experiences from Rural Broadband Initiatives in the Netherlands

2016

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Based on four illustrative case studies from the Netherlands, this article discusses learning experiences gained from rural broadband initiatives. As an example of 'the big society ' (or 'participatiesamenleving' in Dutch), initiatives try to step in where the market and the government fail. The main struggle seems to be negotiating between market and government interests, while simultaneously safeguarding local interests. Many challenges and frustrations arise from counter-tactics on the part of national market players, and governmentality-inspired actions of regional and local authorities. Local capacitysuch as social, intellectual, and financial capital -proves to be crucial in negotiating external influences, but it is easily overburdened. Case studies show that volunteer burnout is a risk that potentially has a high impact. Despite neoliberal agendas and community-led development schemes that promote citizen initiatives, it remains challenging for communities to reclaim control over their digital futures. Members of the initiatives have to learn and professionalise in order to stand their ground in a competitive and complex broadband market, but this learning element seems to be only a byproduct of the process towards achieving the tangible result for rural development, that is, high-speed broadband access.

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“…Strong ties in terms of IO relationships between sectors in the same area mean extensive propagation channels that can transmit crises across sectors and space (Acemoglu, Ozdaglar, andTahbaz-Salehi 2013, Jovanovic 1987). Additionally, having a closely knit local industrial structure with limited interaction to outside competition and/or cooperation may lead to lock-in effects, reduce knowledge flows and the adaptive capacity of regions in the face of adversity (Grabher 1993, Boschma and Iammarino 2009, Shutters, Muneepeerakul, and Lobo 2015, Andersson, Bjerke, and Karlsson 2013. Uzzi (1997) discusses these issues as the 'paradox of embeddedness' whilst studies such as Becattini and Rullani (1996), Maskell and Malmberg (2007) and Bathelt and Cohendet (2014) all highlight the need for combinations of local and global knowledge networks to avoid the 'cognitive myopia' (Buciuni and Pisano 2018) identified by Grabher (1993) in Germany's Ruhr Valley.…”

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Industrial embeddedness and regional economic resistance in Europe

Kitsos¹,

Grabner²,

Incera³

2022

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We study the role of local industrial embeddedness (the share of regional inter-industry economic activity that is anchored to a region) on regional resistance (the difference between pre- and post-crisis employment) to the 2008 Great Recession (GR) in EU and UK NUTS2 regions. The recession had profound effects in regional economies, which showed diverse performance based on their capacity to absorb the shock. The concept of economic resilience has been brought to the center of attention with several contributions exploring its determinants. However, the impact of the embeddedness of local economic systems in terms of sales and supplies has been largely unexplored. We use regional input-output tables to approximate the embeddedness of local economies between and, fixed-effects and quantile regressions to test its relationship to regional resistance between 2008 and 2011. We find that during the GR, regional industries opted to change input rather than output markets. Additionally, embeddedness has a curvilinear relationship to regional resistance which varies across the distribution of regional resistance performance. Finally, at the industry level we find regional embeddedness to be important to the resistance of manufacturing and financial and business services and sectoral embeddedness to matter more for the resistance of construction and wholesale, retail & IT. Our findings highlight nuances that policymakers should be aware of in planning for resilience.

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Import Flows: Extraregional Linkages Stimulating Renewal of Regional Sectors?

Cited by 15 publications

References 45 publications

Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda

Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda

The Community Reclaims Control? Learning Experiences from Rural Broadband Initiatives in the Netherlands

Industrial embeddedness and regional economic resistance in Europe

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