Technopoles, high-tech industries and regional development: A critical review

Technologies have played an important role in the restructuring of the productive system in the last quarter of the 20th century. The article looks at the macroeconomic context and at the transformation of the industrial organization. It then defines the concept of technopole. The author traces the...

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Published in:GeoJournal 2000, Vol.51 (3), p.157-167
Main Author: Benko, Georges
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Area planning & development
Bgi / Prodig
Business structures
Colleges & universities
Commercial production
Economic history
Economic regions
Environment
Geodetic position
Geographic regions
Geography of industry and energy
High tech industries
High technology
High technology industries
Human geography
Industrial development
Industrial economics
Industrial geography
Industrial policy
Industrial production
Laboratories
Local government
Macroeconomics
Planning
Product development
Regional development
Regional planning
Technological innovation
Technology
Technology transfer
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Summary:Technologies have played an important role in the restructuring of the productive system in the last quarter of the 20th century. The article looks at the macroeconomic context and at the transformation of the industrial organization. It then defines the concept of technopole. The author traces the principal elements of the different attempts of theorization with a critical angle, shows the logic of contemporary industry localisation, as well as the role of technopoles in regional development. Regional and industrial policy are then seen as the basis of the process of industrialization and of the technological transfer.
ISSN:0343-2521
1572-9893
DOI:10.1023/A:1017509623931