Regional urbanization and knowledge-intensive business activities (KIBS)

• Verfasst von: Wagner, Madeleine [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Growe, Anna [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Regional urbanization and knowledge-intensive business activities (KIBS)
• Titelzusatz: an example of small and medium-sized cities in the Greater Stuttgart Region (Germany)
• Verf.angabe: Madeleine Wagner and Anna Growe
• Jahr: 2020
• Umfang: 18 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 14.07.2022
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Urban science
• Ort Quelle: Basel : MDPI, 2017
• Jahr Quelle: 2020
• Band/Heft Quelle: 4(2020), 1, Artikel-ID 1, Seite 1-18
• ISSN Quelle: 2413-8851
• DOI: doi:10.3390/urbansci4010001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: knowledge economy
• Sach-SW: reurbanization
• Sach-SW: small and medium-sized towns
• K10plus-PPN: 181018925X

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to understand the role of small and medium-sized cities as economic locations, and as potential anchor locations, in grounding processes of regional urbanization in the knowledge economy. Based on quantitative occupational data, the deconcentration processes of knowledge-intensive business activities are analyzed for the Greater Stuttgart Region in southern Germany. The way in which the different knowledge bases used in knowledge-intensive business activities influence spatial patterns of economic activity in the surrounding area of the core city, including small and medium-sized towns, is discussed. The knowledge bases differentiated in this paper are analytical, synthetic and symbolic knowledge.