R&D, Professional Workers and Geographic Mobility

Malecki将研究的主要问题是技术工人的劳动力市场在多大程度上影响研发公司的选址决策。他将首先研究研发在公司内部的位置，然后调查公司员工和研发人员，以确定公司和工人的选址决策中包括的考虑因素。然后，他将确定企业和工人的位置标准之间的对应程度。这项研究将高科技选址研究中的两个问题联系起来：专业技术工人的劳动力市场和这些工人至关重要的公司设施的选址。该项目将使人们更好地了解高技术工业选址过程，从而通过将这两种观点联系起来，了解更广泛的区域增长和衰退问题。

The major question Malecki will examine is the degree to which the labor market for technical workers affects the locational decisions made by research and development firms. He will first study the location of R&D within corporations and then survey both corporate staffs and R&D personnel to determine considerations included in the locational decision making of corporations and workers. He will then identify the degree of correspondence between the locational criteria of firms and workers. The research links two issues in the study of high-technology location: the labor market for professional and technical workers and the location of corporate facilities for which such workers are critical. The project will yield a better understanding of high-technology industry location process, and therefore of broader questions of regional growth and decline, by linking the two perspectives.