TY - JOUR
T1 - Do high technology policies work? High technology industry employment growth in U.S. metropolitan areas, 1988-1998
AU - Jenkins, J. Craig
AU - Leicht, Kevin T.
AU - Jaynes, Arthur
N1 - Funding Information:
1. Craig Jenkins is a professor of Sociology and Political Science whose areas of research include social movementpolitics, international conflict processes and high technology development. Kevin T. Leicht is a professor of Sociology and co-Director of the Institute for Inequality Studies at the University of Iowa; his major research interests are in the political economy of post-industrial societies, social stratification and inequality, and the causes and consequences of corporate restructuring. Arthur Jaynes was a doctoral student at Ohio State University, who died in an automobile accident on June 19, 2005. The authors thank for their advice: Ed Malecki, Don Haurin, Bill Form, Randy Hodson, Rachel Dwyer, their colleagues and participants in seminars at the Center for Urban & Regional Affairs. Jason Carmichael, Steve Boutcher and Maria McHale also provided invaluable research assistance. This project was supported by the Urban Affairs Program (Project #739365) and the John Glenn Institute for Public Policy, Ohio State University. Direct correspondence to J. Craig Jenkins, Dept. of Sociology, 300 Bricker Hall, 190 N. Oval Mali, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. E-mail: [email protected].
PY - 2006/9
Y1 - 2006/9
N2 - Since the 1970s, federal, state and local governments have launched an array of new high technology development programs. Researchers and policy-makers disagree about the relative merits of these policies. We address the effects of seven of these policies on high tech industry employment growth in metropolitan statistical areas in the United States between 1988 and 1998. A conditional change score design shows that technology grant/loan programs and technology research parks have direct effects net of location and agglomeration factors. Five of seven programs positively interact with existing agglomeration advantages to create growth in high technology industry employment. Technology development programs compensate for deficits in agglomeration resources. Our results suggest that high-technology development can be planned by designing programs that magnify existing local growth advantages.
AB - Since the 1970s, federal, state and local governments have launched an array of new high technology development programs. Researchers and policy-makers disagree about the relative merits of these policies. We address the effects of seven of these policies on high tech industry employment growth in metropolitan statistical areas in the United States between 1988 and 1998. A conditional change score design shows that technology grant/loan programs and technology research parks have direct effects net of location and agglomeration factors. Five of seven programs positively interact with existing agglomeration advantages to create growth in high technology industry employment. Technology development programs compensate for deficits in agglomeration resources. Our results suggest that high-technology development can be planned by designing programs that magnify existing local growth advantages.
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U2 - 10.1353/sof.2006.0128
DO - 10.1353/sof.2006.0128
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33749234392
SN - 0037-7732
VL - 85
SP - 267
EP - 296
JO - Social Forces
JF - Social Forces
IS - 1
ER -