Industry clusters and Sydney's ITT sector: Northern Sydney as 'Australia's Silicon Valley'?

Australian Geographer

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-169

  Searle, Glen ^a   Pritchard, Bill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information technology and telecommunications (ITT) sector; Localisation economies; Spatial clustering; Sydney; Urbanisation economies

Indexed keywords

HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY; WORLD;

EID: 25444527208     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049180500153443     Document Type: Article

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