Which Export Variety Matters for Urban Economic Growth, Related or Unrelated Variety?

Qin, Xiaozhen; Li, Shan; Xu, Weipan; Li, Xun

doi:10.3390/su11164325

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“…Therefore, cognitive proximity between enterprises is identified as a requirement to make knowledge transfer effective between enterprises (Boschma, Ron, 2005). In general, new industries or new developing paths are more possible to appear in a region with more related pre-existing industries (Qin et al, 2019;Ali, 2017).…”

Section: Path Dependence Based On Technological Relatedness--regional Industrial Diversification On the Supply Sidementioning

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Development strategy of urban industrial diversification based on market potential and path dependence

Liu

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2021

IRSPSD International

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Numerous studies conclude that urban industrial evolution depends on the technological relatedness-associated supply side. However, such industrial evolution may also be affected by market force-related demand side. To fill this gap, this research aims to examine whether market force, reflected by market potential and market segmentation, also has significant impacts on the diversification of regional industries, and whether such impacts differ among different regions of China. The data used export customs declaration data recorded by customs offices. We introduce the PROBIT binary variable model to explore the effects of technological relatedness, market motential, market segmentation on diversification of regional industry. The results show that the diversification of export industries was not only positively affected by technological relatedness, but also impacted by market potential and market segmentation positive and negative, respectively. Notably, the impact of technological relatedness on the innovation of export industry was weakened in areas with low market potential but strengthened in those with high market segmentation. Moreover, we found that the effect of technological relatedness was weakened in more developed cities, while the effects of market potential and market segmentation were relatively universal. Theoretically, this paper expands the framework of evolutionary economic geography. We understood the influential factors of industrial innovation from both the supply and demand side, instead of the solely supply side in most previous studies. Practically, this study points out a new development path for the industrial evolution of marginal areas.

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Section: Path Dependence Based On Technological Relatedness--regional Industrial Diversification On the Supply Sidementioning

confidence: 99%

Development strategy of urban industrial diversification based on market potential and path dependence

Liu

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2021

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“…Existing studies on the export trade of Chinese cities have mainly focused on two aspects. One is the impact of exports on urban development, including economic growth [ 8 , 9 ], urbanization [ 10 ], issues around left-behind children [ 11 ], urban residents’ happiness [ 12 ], urban pollution, and environmental protection [ 13 , 14 ]. The other aspect is related to factors affecting a city’s export trade, which includes environmental regulations [ 15 ], financial development and constraints [ 16 ], and air pollution [ 17 ].…”

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Competition among cities for export trade brings diversification: The experience of China’s urban export trade development

Wang

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Market competition is considered to have a significant impact on product diversification, but related issues are rarely discussed on a city scale. To analyze the diversification of export commodities and export market of 270 Chinese cities, this study uses data from 2000 to 2017 based on the commodity concentration index, market concentration index, export similarity index, spatial stratified heterogeneity, and the Almon lag model. The study’s findings are: (1) The diversification of exports in most Chinese cities increased, which was higher in more developed cities in the southeast than in less developed ones in the northwest. With time, the degree of commodity and market diversification in some developed southeast Chinese cities (e.g., Shanghai) declined. This indicates the difference in and complexity of the evolution of export development in hundreds of Chinese cities between 2000 and 2017. (2) The export competition between cities became increasingly fierce, which effectively urged most of them to improve their export diversification levels. Facing increasing export competition pressure, 81.11% of the total number of cities will enhance the diversification of export commodities to cope with challenges posed by other cities. But only 56.67% will further expand the export market when the pressure of export competition increases. The biggest contribution of this study is the finding that for most Chinese cities, when export competition from other domestic cities increases, increasing diversification of products becomes a wise choice. However, the influence of competition on the diversification degree of the city’s export market is relatively weak. This study provides not only a new perspective for existing research on urban export trade, but also valuable information for cities to form a more profitable and robust trading system.

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“…Similarly, social sustainability is also considered a process to create sustainable and successful places that promote human wellbeing by understanding that people are affected by the places where they live and work [1]. The relationship between export variety and economic growth has been paid much attention in academia [2]. This document explores, more specifically, the relationship between the variety of tourism-specific products (TSPs) and human development as a proxy for social sustainability.…”

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Diversification in Tourism-Related Activities and Social Sustainability in the State of Hidalgo, Mexico

2019

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The objective of this paper is to explore the empirical relationships between the economic diversification of tourism-specific products (TSPs) and human development (as a key piece of social sustainability) at the sub-state level using the scenario of the State of Hidalgo in the year 2014 (the most recent period available) as the context for the study. The first step was to develop an algebraic analysis using the reflection method (RM) to map, for the first time, the diversity and ubiquity of the municipalities of Hidalgo in relation to tourism-related activities in the region. Secondly, additional diversity proxy measures were calculated, namely Shannon’s entropy and the Hirshman–Herfindalhl index, using employment data derived from the TSPs. This allowed us to run a series of regressions that show the explanatory power of the diversification of tourism-related activities on human development. In conclusion, it was demonstrated that the diversification of tourism activities within the analyzed context is essential for social sustainability, which frames the relevance of tourism to promote the development of the region. Finally, it is noted that one of the greatest contributions of this research is the provision of empirical evidence regarding the diversity of the TSPs in a specific context, because given the peculiar structure of tourism, it is not easy to quantify the diversification of the tourism sector in an economy.

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Which Export Variety Matters for Urban Economic Growth, Related or Unrelated Variety?

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Development strategy of urban industrial diversification based on market potential and path dependence

Development strategy of urban industrial diversification based on market potential and path dependence

Competition among cities for export trade brings diversification: The experience of China’s urban export trade development

Diversification in Tourism-Related Activities and Social Sustainability in the State of Hidalgo, Mexico

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