This paper provides new evidence that, controlling for other effects, the growth of employment in high-technology SMEs depends on the initial horizontal clustering. The paper focuses on employment change over the period 1991-2000 in computing services and research and development (R&D)...

European researchers and governments have begun to pay particular attention to the emergence of local economies based on technology and to the role of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in providing employment opportunities.To better understand these trends, the clustering of British...

This paper tests some of the main hypotheses about the importance of horizontal clusters for the growth of employment in small firms using data from Computing Services in Great Britain. In the main section of the paper, spatial econometric models are estimated controlling for supply- and...

This paper provides new evidence that, controlling for other effects, the growth of employment in high technology SMEs depends on the initial horizontal clustering. The paper focuses on employment change over the period 1991-2000 in Computing Services and Research and Development (R&D)...