A thematic approach to regional economic development: Technical report for the state of Maine development strategy 2020-2029

Crawley, Andrew and Hallowell, Angela (2020): A thematic approach to regional economic development: Technical report for the state of Maine development strategy 2020-2029.

Abstract

This paper proposes a new approach to regional economic development that attempts to bring together sector and place-based strategies through the use of thematics. By connecting new measures and existing diagnostics we demonstrate how a region may identify emerging industrial themes based on their existing sectors, their labor pool, and their innovative capacity. By connecting often disparate heritage industries to new niche growing areas, a region might adapt to global and regional trends. To demonstrate this new approach, it is applied to data for the US state of Maine

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Regional Economic Development; Place-based Policies; Thematics; Industrial Analysis
• Subjects: R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity

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