Abstract
In recent years, nearly all of the job creation in the U.S. manufacturing sector can be attributed to growth in high-technology industries.1 The magnitude of this “technological renaissance” has not only spurred competition among states and metropolitan areas for high-technology employment, but also rekindled academic interest in the spatial dimensions of innovation process. However, amid this interest in high technology firms and centers, technological competition, and ensuing local development issues, very little information has been developed to date on the specialized labor resources (for both production and research and development) that generate the observed geographic patterns of interest.
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Herzog, H.W., Schlottmann, A.M. (1989). High-Technology Location and Worker Mobility in the U.S.. In: Andersson, Å.E., Batten, D.F., Karlsson, C. (eds) Knowledge and Industrial Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95597-6_16
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