Knowledge cities: a taxonomy for analyzing software and information service clusters

Revista de Administração de Empresas

Paulo Bastos Tigre²  Renata Lebre La Rovere²  Francisco Lima Teixeira¹  Andrés López¹  Daniela Ramos¹  Néstor Bercovich¹  Alessandro De Orlando Maia Pinheiro²  Silvio Araújo¹  Ricardo Furtado Rodrigues¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Instituto de Economia Rio de Janeiro RJ ,Brazil

关键词: Software and information service clusters;    knowledge cities;    Brazil;    Argentina;    industrial and technology policies;    Clusters de software e serviços da informação;    cidades do conhecimento;    Brasil;    Argentina;    políticas industriais e tecnológicas;    Clusters de software y servicios de la información;    ciudades del conocimiento;    Brasil;    Argentina;    políticas industriales y tecnológicas;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0034-75902011000100003

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Software and information services (SIS) have become a field of increasing opportunities for international trade due to the worldwide diffusion of a combination of technological and organizational innovations. In several regions, the software industry is organized in clusters, usually referred to as "knowledge cities" because of the growing importance of knowledge-intensive services in their economy. This paper has two primary objectives. First, it raises three major questions related to the attractiveness of different cities in Argentina and Brazil for hosting software companies and to their impact on local development. Second, a new taxonomy is proposed for grouping clusters according to their dominant business segment, ownership pattern and scope of operations. The purpose of this taxonomy is to encourage further studies and provide an exploratory analytical tool for analyzing software clusters.

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