Towards a theory of regional diversification: combining insights from Evolutionary Economic Geography and Transition Studies
融合演化经济地理学和转型研究，提出区域多样化理论框架，区分相关与无关多样化，并构建四种多样化路径类型，帮助理解区域经济转型中的机构创业与空间尺度因素。
Towards a theory of regional diversification: combining insights from Evolutionary Economic Geography and Transition Studies. Regional Studies. This paper develops a theoretical framework of regional diversification by combining insights from Evolutionary Economic Geography and Transition Studies. It argues that a theory of regional diversification should not only build on the current understanding of related diversification but also account for processes of unrelated diversification by looking at the role of agency in processes of institutional entrepreneurship, and at enabling and constraining factors at various spatial scales. This paper proposes a typology of four regional diversification trajectories by cross-tabulating related versus unrelated diversification with niche creation versus regime adoption, and it develops a number of propositions.