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Relatedness, Industrial Branching and Technological Cohesion in US Metropolitan Areas

Essletzbichler, J; (2013) Relatedness, Industrial Branching and Technological Cohesion in US Metropolitan Areas. Regional Studies 10.1080/00343404.2013.806793. Green open access

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Abstract

Essletzbichler J. Relatedness, industrial branching and technological cohesion in US metropolitan areas, Regional Studies. Work by evolutionary economic geographers on the role of industry relatedness for regional economic development is extended into a number of methodological and empirical directions. First, relatedness is measured as the intensity of input-output linkages between industries. Second, this measure is employed to examine industry evolution in 360 US metropolitan areas. Third, an employment-weighted measure of metropolitan technological cohesion is developed. The results confirm that technological relatedness is positively related to metropolitan industry portfolio membership and industry entry and negatively related to industry exit. The decomposition of technological cohesion indicates that the selection of related incumbent industries complements industry entry and exit as the main drivers of change in metropolitan technological cohesion. © 2013 Copyright Regional Studies Association.

Type: Article
Title: Relatedness, Industrial Branching and Technological Cohesion in US Metropolitan Areas
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2013.806793
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2013.806793
Language: English
Additional information: © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1375600
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