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The export of knowledge-based services (EKBS) is providing new economic opportunities world-wide. It has generated particular interest in islands and peripheral regions because such relatively high added value/low export cost activity is seen as addressing their perceived locational disadvantages, especially given new technologies which facilitate the movement of information and knowledge. This chapter, based on one of the North Atlantic Islands Project (NAIP) sectoral studies, examines the opportunities export services present in four islands on the North Atlantic periphery and, in particular, the ways in which they are constrained or facilitated by issues of jurisdiction, peripherality and islandness.
The authors are indebted to all those who contributed to the report ‘Small Places, Big Ideas: Exporting Knowledge-based Services from the Atlantic Periphery’, and, in particular, co-principal researcher Dr Sigfús Jónsson, project coordinator Blair Winsor and researcher Ingibjorg Tomasdóttir.
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Shrimpton, M., Pollett, C. (2000). Small Places, Big Ideas: Exporting North Atlantic Expertise. In: Baldacchino, G., Milne, D. (eds) Lessons from the Political Economy of Small Islands. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62865-0_12
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