Knowledge-bases, places, spatial configurations and the performance of knowledge-intensive professional service firms
Knowledge-bases, places, spatial configurations and the performance of knowledge-intensive professional service firms
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DOI：
10.1093/jeg/lbs015
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发表时间：
2012-09
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
B. Tether;Q. Li;Andrea Mina
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作者：
B. Tether;Q. Li;Andrea Mina
知识密集型服务业和专业服务企业是近年来经济地理学家和创新学者关注的焦点。这两个社区也表现出对知识和“知识基础”的浓厚兴趣。考虑到建筑是基于符号和综合知识，工程是基于分析和综合知识，并使用面板数据集，本文探讨了不同的地理表现活跃在英国建筑业的建筑实践和工程咨询。我们发现，建筑的做法是显着更集中在内伦敦，而工程咨询更分散。位于内伦敦提供了显着的财政利益的建筑师，但不是工程师。最终，性能的驱动因素是相当不同的，Christallerian逻辑适用于建筑师，而不是工程师。我们认为，不同的知识基础是理解建筑师和工程师之间的这些差异的基础。
In recent years both economic geographers and innovation scholars have paid considerable attention to knowledge-intensive-business-services (KIBS) and professional service firms (PSFs). Both communities have also shown a strong interest in knowledge, and ‘knowledge-bases’. Considering architecture to be based on symbolic and synthetic knowledge, and engineering to be based on analytical and synthetic knowledge, and using a panel dataset, this paper examines the different geographies of performance amongst architecture practices and engineering consultancies active in the UK construction industry. We find that architecture practices are significantly more concentrated in inner London, whereas the engineering consultancies are much more dispersed. Locating in inner London provides significant financial benefits to the architects, but not for engineers. Ultimately various the drivers of performance are rather different, with a Christallerian logic applying to architects but not to engineers. We consider that different knowledge bases are fundamental to understanding these differences between architects and engineers.