High Technology Location and the Urban Areas of Great Britain

Begg, Iain; Cameron, Gordon C.

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“…The evidence on this issue is mixed (Begg and Cameron, 1988 ;Davelaar and Nijkamp, 1989) but it does seem to suggest that local urban areas do not play a role as markets for high technology development . Again, the reason is probably the global context in which these industries operate and thus the role of the urban area has more to do with creating the supportive environment for new firm growth and survival (Aydalot and Keeble, 1988) .…”

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Urban Economic Development and High Technology Industry

Shachar

Felsenstein

1992

Urban Studies

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This paper examines the economic development prospects for urban areas arising from localised clusters of high technology activity . Economic development opportunities are expected to be expressed in the development of local linkage patterns : employment linkages, production and service linkages and linkages to local universities . On the basis of survey evidence of high technology firms from two urban areas in Israel, linkage patterns are found to be weakly developed locally but extensively developed nationally and internationally . This is explained as a result of the international character of Israeli high technology activity resulting in a limited effect on the development of the local urban economy . Policy implications for urban economic development point to the need for the formulation of a public policy executed and administered at the local level rather than the present system of central government targeting of urban economic development at select locations .

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Section: Arie Shachar and Daniel Felsensteinmentioning

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Urban Economic Development and High Technology Industry

Shachar

Felsenstein

1992

Urban Studies

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“…A level-of-technology classification based on product or sector can seem somewhat arbitrary. Reasons for this are given by Begg and Cameron (1988) who point to the fact that the same product can be manufactured by different technologies, and that processes of diverse technological vintage are often used together in a given sector . The electronics sector, for instance, though ostensibly high-technology from the product perspective, is often associated with low-technology production processes involving unskilled assemblyline work.…”

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The Location of Employment in High-technology Manufacturing in Great Britain

Fingleton

1992

Urban Studies

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The location of employment in high-technology manufacturing in Great Britain in 1984 is analysed using a series of spatial regression models . These show that the distribution of employment explains a large part of the high-technology manufacturing employment distribution, indicating that the forces acting on high-technology location are similar to those acting on all industries . In addition, it is shown that the number of industrial establishments that migrated from each county in the previous decade is significantly positively associated with the location of high-technology manufacturing. This is interpreted as a signal that spatial variations in the level of positive feedback were also responsible for employment variations . In addition, the South West region has a higher level of employment than suggested by the above factors, and Yorkshire and Humberside and the Intermediate Areas have lower employment levels . There are four significant outliers from the final regression . An exploratory analysis suggests that three of these counties deviate because of sectoral effects involving a few high-technology subsectors, rather than being the result of local economic factors operating across the range of high-technology subsectors . London is a special case with less than the predicted level of high-technology employment, though the metropolis remained the country's major concentration of high-technology jobs .

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“…Given that the bulk of Britain's 'high tech' sectors are concentrated in the south of the country (Keeble, 1992;Begg and Cameron, 1988) there is an argument for focusing on the performance of the traditional sectors, such as mechanical engineering, when assessing the position of the periphery. Peripheral localities such as Wearside in North East England, in 1990 for example, were still heavily dependent upon mechanical and electrical engineering, which accounted for 30 per cent of manufacturing employment (Stone, 1993), while Scotland, despite being an important centre for the electronics industry (Keeble, 1992) still possesses a number of major heavy engineering concerns indicating a continuing dependence on such traditional sectors within the manufacturing base (Danson et al, 1992).…”

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Innovation performance in the periphery: The case of mechanical and electrical engineering

Alderman

1998

Scottish Geographical Magazine

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This paper concerns the innovation performance of peripheral mechanical and electrical engineering establishments. The results of a major survey demonstrate that, although lagging the traditional industrial heartland, the performance of parts of the periphery is similar to many of the core regions. Detailed interviews with engineering establishments reveal differences between peripheral and non-peripheral establishments in product development strategy, level of technical resource and supplier involvement in the development process. Some Scottish case studies illustrate these findings.

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High Technology Location and the Urban Areas of Great Britain

Cited by 25 publications

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Urban Economic Development and High Technology Industry

Urban Economic Development and High Technology Industry

The Location of Employment in High-technology Manufacturing in Great Britain

Innovation performance in the periphery: The case of mechanical and electrical engineering

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