This article examines the location pattern and role of advanced producer services outside the metropolitan core. Will such services migrate to and stay in peripheral regions and boost growth as would be necessary if such regions are to benefit from the growth of the advanced services sector? Our...

Footloose information technology producer services are increasingly viewed as the new engines of regional growth and employment creation. The claim is often that appropriate government policy can engineer comparative advantage in that direction by means of judicious subsidisation. The evaluation...

W ERNERHEIM C. M. and S HARPE C. A. (2003) "High order' "producer services in metropolitan Canada: how footloose are they?, Reg. Studies 37 , 469-490. This paper builds on the growing body of international research suggesting that the notion of engineering regional comparative advantage and...