Location of New Industries: The ICT Sector 1990–2000

Creative Milieus in the Stockholm Region

“…This happens across all sizes of urban regions (Johansson, et.al., 2010). In a similar way the majority of industries in the ICT cluster also diffuse across the rest of the country (Johansson, 2006;Johansson and Paulsson, 2009). There are some but much weaker signs of spatial diffusion of financial services.…”

Urban Competitiveness and US Metropolitan Centres

“…Others, such as the Competitiveness Institute (n.d.), argue that competitiveness is little more than clusters. However, experience informs us, on the one hand, that many cities can be competitive as centres of logistics, or culture and recreation, or administration, or niche manufacturing and, on the other hand, that clusters are effective in some industries or locations or in conjunction with specific policies adopted by local authorities, but not in others (Rantisi, 2004; Johansson and Paulsson, 2009; and Cumbers and MacKinnon, 2004). While offering very useful guidance to cities in certain situations, this approach is less useful as a general model of policy analysis and prescription.…”