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The Location of Knowledge-Based Activities: The Case of Computer Software

In: Innovation, Networks and Localities

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  • Rena Sivitanidou

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There is a growing recognition that Computer Software represents one of the key knowledge-based, high technology service sectors of our times. Triggered by the development of the microprocessor and bolstered by the introduction of the personal computer and the World Wide Web, such a sector signifies the digital and information revolution of the post-industrial era.1 Its strength is evidenced in the phenomenal growth of giant software corporations serving world markets (e.g. Microsoft), large independent firms specialising in PC software (Novell, Oracle, Adobe, Autodesk, Symantec), and numerous smaller independent software firms that represent a growing component of the economic fabric of technologically advanced societies. Reinforcing the growth in Computer Software are businesses across economic sectors which, in the light of growing global competition (intensified by technology itself), increasingly rely on software based information and telecommunications technologies for their operations. Also fuelling, and being enabled by, growth in Computer Software are changes in corporate structures and practices (e.g. re-engineering and downsizing), technology-related changes in production and distribution (e.g. vertical and spatial disintegration, flexible production, Just in Time distribution), and telecommunication sector advancements that increasingly use digital technologies and embedded software.2

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  • Rena Sivitanidou, 1999. "The Location of Knowledge-Based Activities: The Case of Computer Software," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Manfred M. Fischer & Luis Suarez-Villa & Michael Steiner (ed.), Innovation, Networks and Localities, chapter 7, pages 109-154, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-642-58524-1_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-58524-1_7
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    1. Anke Matuschewski, 2006. "Regional clusters of the information economy in Germany," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(3), pages 409-422.
    2. Oerlemans, Leon A. G. & Boekema, Frans W. M. & Meeus, Marius T. H., 2000. "On The Spatial Embeddedness Of Innovation Networks: An Exploration Of The Proximity Effect," ERSA conference papers ersa00p57, European Regional Science Association.
    3. Matuschewski, Anke, 2002. "Regional embeddedness of information economy enterprises in Germany," ERSA conference papers ersa02p277, European Regional Science Association.

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