Related variety and firm heterogeneity. What really matters for short-run firm growth?

Volume: 31, Issue: 9-10, Pages: 768 - 784
Published: Feb 1, 2019
Abstract
In recent years, two concepts have become key elements in economic geography: related variety and firm heterogeneity. The first one predicts that knowledge spillovers within a region/local system occur among firms operating in ‘different but related’ sectors. The second one assumes that knowledge spillovers can occur among ‘different’ firms belonging to the same localised sector/industrial cluster. Using a sample of 27,817 Italian manufacturing...
Paper Details
Title
Related variety and firm heterogeneity. What really matters for short-run firm growth?
Published Date
Feb 1, 2019
Volume
31
Issue
9-10
Pages
768 - 784
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