Gauging metropolitan "high-tech" and "I-tech" activity

Economic Development Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 10-29

  Chapple, Karen ^a   Markusen, Ann ^b   Schrock, Greg ^b   Yamamoto, Daisaku ^b   Yu, Pingkang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

City rankings; High tech; Occupations

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; METROPOLITAN AREA; RANKING; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; URBAN ECONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1242299683     PISSN: 08912424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891242403257948     Document Type: Article

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