Knowledge Cities: a Taxonomy For Analyzing Software and Information Service Clusters

• Autor(a) principal: Tigre, Paulo Bastos
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: La Rovere, Renata Lebre, Teixeira, Francisco Lima C., López, Andrés, Ramos, Daniela, Bercovich, Néstor, Pinheiro, Alessandro de Orlando Maia, Araújo, Silvio, Rodrigues, Ricardo Furtado
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração de Empresas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rae/article/view/31002
• topic: Software and information service clusters; knowledge cities; Brazil; Argentina; industrial and technology policies; Clusters de software e serviços da informação; cidades do conhecimento; Brasil; Argentina; políticas industriais e tecnológicas

Software and information services (SIS) have become a field of increasing opportunities for international trade due to the worldwide diffusion of a combination of technological and organizational innovations. In several regions, the software industry is organized in clusters, usually referred to as “knowledge cities” because of the growing importance of knowledge-intensive services in their economy. This paper has two primary objectives. First, it raises three major questions related to the attractiveness of different cities in Argentina and Brazil for hosting software companies and to their impact on local development. Second, a new taxonomy is proposed for grouping clusters according to their dominant business segment, ownership pattern and scope of operations. The purpose of this taxonomy is to encourage further studies and provide an exploratory analytical tool for analyzing software clusters.