Competitive Time-Space in High Technology

Nick Henry; Doreen  Massey

doi:10.1016/0016-7185(94)00022-Y

Competitive Time-Space in High Technology

Nick Henry, Doreen Massey

Open University

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The ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’—the growth of R&D based high technology industry in Cambridge during the 1980s—is an economic success story of the new times. As a study of the work organisation of the scientist/engineers of Cambridge, this paper reveals the extreme time-space flexibility experienced by these workers. It reveals also how this flexible use of time and space is essential in the internationally competitive success of high technology industry in Cambridge. The paper ends with a critical look ahead at some of the implications and contradictions of this particular form of growth both for the economy and this set of elite workers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	49-64
Number of pages	16
Journal	Geoforum
Volume	26
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7185(94)00022-Y
Publication status	Published - 1995

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