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The Geographies of Industrial Upgrading

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To many developing regions, export-oriented industrialization has become a well-known strategy for promoting industrial growth. But whether local firms in these regions can catch up with TNCs is still in question. What is the scope for local strategies so that a latecomer region can be upgraded and improve its competitiveness? This book has probed into industrial changes and dynamics in the PRD from three different industries to look for the answer.

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    In the triple-C of local industrial policy framework, customer-oriented, collective and cumulative are proposed as key features of effective approaches for fostering local development.

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Liu, Y. (2020). The Geographies of Industrial Upgrading. In: Local Dynamics of Industrial Upgrading. Economic Geography. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4297-8_8

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