• Changes in unrelated variety and climbing the poverty ladder: a U-shaped relationship 

      Lu, Ren; Zhao, Xiangying; Peng, Xiangcai; Liu, Yinglin; Reve, Torger; Lv, Daguo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The purpose of this paper is to study how changes in unrelated variety influence individuals’ poverty alleviation. Drawing on the LiTS III database, we employed the Oprobit model to test 5007 individual-level observations ...
    • Global knowledge sourcing in thick and diversified RIS: case studies in Oslo, Malmø and Beijing. 

      Wiig, Heidi; Liu, Ju; Zukauskaite, Elena (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      There is an increased need of understanding organizational and institutional underpinnings of firms’ global knowledge search. This paper addresses thick and diversified RIS in two different territorial contexts and explores ...
    • Relations among clusters 

      Lu, Ren; Reve, Torger (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Many papers on economic geography have analysed industrial clusters, but few have addressed the relations among clusters. This paper discusses three types of relations among clusters to better understand why they occur and ...
    • Relations among clusters in six Chinese city regions 

      Lu, Ren; Zhang, Ruikan; Reve, Torger (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Despite the considerable number of papers that have discussed industrial clusters, it is surprising that there is little research evidence on relations among clusters. This article collects longitudinal data on three ...