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Transportation Amenities and High-Tech Firm Location: An Empirical Study of High-Tech Clusters by Ahoura Zandiatashbar; Shima Hamidi is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Transportation Amenities and High-Tech Firm Location: An Empirical Study of High-Tech Clusters about?
Clustering and active transportation infrastructures have a significant impact on economic development strategies for attracting high-tech firms. High-tech firms cluster to create economies of scale. In theory, such clusters favor walkable and transit-accessible locations following the preferences of footloose workers of the creative class, an expectation that underpins pro-walkability and transit-accessible development strategies. Such approaches, however, fail to consider countervailing factors including changes in logistics, land values, the rise of the e-economy, and gig workers, which could result in a preference for auto-centric locations. This study addresses the knowledge gap by investigating differences in location behaviors of six high-tech sectoral categories with respect to transportation infrastructures. The analysis uses a firm-level micro dataset provided by Esri along with multiple logit regressions to explore the relationship between high-tech firm locations and transportation amenities in 627 high-tech clusters from the 52 largest U.S. regions. The results show that not all high-tech industries opt for walkable and transit-accessible locations. Compared with other
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- Author
- Ahoura Zandiatashbar; Shima Hamidi
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)