Digital transformation in the world city networks' advanced producer services complex: A technology space analysis
Digital transformation in the world city networks' advanced producer services complex: A technology space analysis
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10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103721
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2024-05-17
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3.5
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Vorley，Tim
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Trincado-Munoz，Francisco;van Meeteren，Michiel;Vorley，Tim
长期以来被认为是知识经济和世界城市形成的先锋的先进生产者服务业（APS）正在经历数字化转型。数字化转型需要在APS公司的运营、产品供应和战略中更多地使用数字技术，这可能会带来变革性的影响。这种数字化过程在金融向金融科技的转变中已经建立，其他APS子行业现在据称正在迎头赶上，如LegalTech，AccountTech，RegTech，PropTech和AdTech的到来。此外，数字化转型可能意味着信息和通信技术（ICT）服务在20年来被世界城市研究基本忽略后再次成为APS综合体的核心。采用进化经济地理学的视角，我们引入了一种新的方法，利用近实时的数据源来比较本地技术空间与世界城市数字化转型的全球图景。本文构建了一个数据集，其中包含来自Dealroom.co的40，754家APS初创企业和规模化企业的信息，探讨了欧洲和北美世界城市APS行业在地理上不均衡的数字化转型。这可以衡量每个选定城市的APS行业内的数字化转型程度，对世界城市之间的劳动分工形成新的理解，并突出APS行业之间的行业合并正在发生并且更有可能发生。在此过程中，我们开发了新的世界城市性技术指标，可与经典的世界城市连通性指标一起使用。
The Advanced Producer Services (APS) sector, long considered to be the vanguard of the knowledge economy and world-city formation, is undergoing a digital transformation. Digital transformation entails an increased engagement with digital technologies in the operation, product offerings and strategies of APS firms, with potentially transformative implications. Such digitization processes are well-established in the morphing of finance into FinTech, with the other APS sub-sectors now allegedly catching-up as evidenced by the arrival of LegalTech, AccountTech, RegTech, PropTech, and AdTech. Moreover, the digital transformation could imply that Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) services are again becoming central to the APS complex after two decades of being largely omitted from world city research. Adopting an evolutionary economic geography perspective, we introduce a new approach that utilizes near real-time data sources to compare local technology spaces with the global picture of digital transformation in world cities. Building a dataset containing information from 40,754 APS start-ups and scale-ups derived from Dealroom.co, this paper explores the geographically uneven digital transformation of the APS sector across European and North American world cities. This allows gauging the extent of digital transformation within APS sectors for each selected city, develop new understandings of the division of labour between world cities, and highlight where sector coalescence between APS sectors is occurring and is more likely to occur. In the process we develop new technological indicators of world-cityness that can be used alongside the classic world city connectivity indicators.