Competition, internationalisation and the regions: the example of the information technology production industries in Europe

Andrew Gillespie*, Jeremy Howells, Howard Williams, Alfred Thwaites

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Abstract

In this chapter, the authors provide a bridge between the location specific and the international restructuring types of approach to studying the geography of high technology industry. They examine some of the dominant types of corporate response to competitive pressure in one sectoral and geographical sub-set of high technology industry that involved in the production of information technology in Europe and then to consider some of the regional development implications of these dominant forms of restructuring process. The internationalisation of markets for Information Technology (IT) products has preceded the internationalisation of production per se, in accordance with Palloix, who predicted a sequence in which the internationalisation of commodity capital takes place earlier than that for either money capital or productive capital. The European IT industries already display marked geographical concentration, with the major metropolitan regions of France, the Low Countries, Germany, Northern Italy and the UK dominating the geography of IT production in Europe.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Development of High Technology Industries
Subtitle of host publicationAn International Survey
EditorsMichael J. Breheny, Ronald Mcquaid
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter5
Pages113-142
Number of pages30
ISBN (Electronic)9781351268998, 9781351269001
ISBN (Print)9781138576742, 9781138576827
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Mar 2018

Publication series

NameRoutledge Library Editions: The Economics and Business of Technology
PublisherRoutledge

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