Technological innovation, industrial organisation and location of services in the European Community

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Regional development prospects and the role of information services
Environmental research

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• Sciences et techniques

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-UNION
• Nombre de lectures: 30
• Langue: English
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and Location in
UK Services
JEREMY HOWELLS
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ANNE GREEN
A REPORT FROM THE FAST PROGRAMME OF THE
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMMUNITIES TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, STRUCTURAL CHANGE
AND LOCATION IN UK SERVICES Based on a report prepared for the Commission of the European
Communities, Directorate-General for Science, Research and Development,
as part of the FAST Frogramme (Forecasting and Assessment in the Field
of Science and Technology). y
Technological Innovation,
Structural Change and
Location in UK Services
JEREMY HOWELLS
Research Fellow
Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies
The University of Newcastle upon Tyne
and
ANNE GREEN
Research Associate
Institute for Employment Research
The University of Warwick
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Biddies Limited, Guildford and King's Lynn Contents
Acknowledgements viii
1. Th« UK Servie« Sector : An Overview 1
Introduction
Definition and Classification of Service Activities 2
Service Sector Growth 5
Scope of the Book 8
Growth and Decline in Service Industries 10
Context 1
Service Employment Change I : Divisional Basis 11 ete II: Industry Class Basis4
Spatial Trends in Employment Change In Services 22
Introduction 2
A Framework for the Classification of Service
Industries3
The Areal Framework7
The Spatial Distribution of Service Employment, 1981 28
Change in Service Employment, 1971-81 3
Modelling Employment Change in Services8
Two Contrasting Areas of Service Employment:
Tyne & Wear and Berkshire. 44. Location and Development of Producer and Information
Services 52
Introduction52
The Significance of Producer Services53
TheChanging Geography of Employment inProducer
Services,1971-8154
TheSignificance of the Information Economy64
EconomicandOrganisational Trends in UK Services73
Introduction73
Concentration and the Small Firm Sector inUK
Services74
NewFirms,Self-Employment and the Black Economy
inthe Service Sector 80
DiversificationandAcquisition in UK Services 91
ExternalisationofServices98
UK InternationalServiceTransactions 106
DeregulationandPrivatisation130
6. Location and IndustrialOrganisation ofUKServices 139
Change and Location inUK Services : Introduction139
Industrial Concentration and Service Location140
Service Linkages and Locational Development 146
Internalisation, Externalisation and Locational
Change in Services 150
TheLocationofNewandSmall Service Firms154
InternationalCompetition and UK Service Location156
Privatisation,Deregulation and the Geographyof
ServiceProvision160
7. Service Innovations,Technology and Location 163
Introduction 163
TechnologyandServices:A Framework164
Technology,Employmentand Labour Productivity in
Services169
Services,TechnologicalInnovation and Location:
AReview174
TheGeographyofGrowthand Employment in New
ServiceActivities■176
8. Networks, Telecommunications and Information Service
Location 186
Networksand Telecommunications: An Introduction186
Networks,s and the Development
andLocation of Information Services 187
TheGeography of a Service Innovation: VANS203
ServiceInnovations, TechnologyandLocation:
Conclusions209