Stuttgart’s auto-sector concentration rose from below 30 to nearly 50 percent

Evidence

There are approximately 100 companies in Stuttgart’s automotive sector. They are responsible for 43.6 per cent of the industrial output in the region. This signifies an important growth trend. In 1980, car manufacturing accounted for 28.7 per cent of the total output. In 1992, its share had dwindled to 27.3 per cent, but since then has steadily risen to close to 50.0 per cent in 2007. 25.9 per cent of all industrial employees are to be found there, with employment growing faster than in the rest of Baden-Württemberg as well as in Germany. — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence, 923

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the argument that lock-in deepened rather than dissolved — the exact numeric counterpoint to claims that mature regions must diversify.