@article{
author = "Zeković, Slavka and Perić, Ana",
year = "2023",
abstract = "This paper analyzes post-socialist industrial development and policy in the Western Balkans through the lens of its regional specialization and spatial concentration. Against a conceptual framework revolving around place-based industrial policy, and using the Concentration index (modified Herfindahl-Hirschman index) and location coefficients (Balassa index), a comparative analysis over three decades (1990–2020) highlights weak regional diversification and intra-regional integration of industrial activity. The findings offer a new industrial policy that transcends regional specialization and spatial concentration to address regional development, planning and governance. The concluding remarks reveal some basic paths toward effective and pro-European regional industrial policy in the Western Balkans.",
publisher = "Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group",
journal = "Eastern European Economics",
title = "Regional Industrial Policy in the Western Balkans: Neither Specialization nor Spatialization?",
doi = "10.1080/00128775.2023.2178936"
}