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London; Slough & Woking
Brighton
Crawley
Reading
Worthing
Guildford & Aldershot
Liverpool
Milton Keynes
Ipswich
Hastings
York
Cambridge
Southampton & Winchester
Portsmouth
Oxford
Bristol
Bournemouth; Poole
ENGLAND
Tyneside
Peterborough
Manchester
Wirral & Chester
Leeds
Norwich
Northampton
Preston
Nottingham
Plymouth
Maidstone & North Kent
Southend
Luton
Swindon
Gloucester
Warrington
Sheffield & Rotherham
Doncaster
Blackpool
Middlesbrough & Stockton
Hull
Bolton
Birmingham; Dudley & Sandwell; Wolverhampton & Walsall
Wigan & St Helens
Wakefield
Sunderland & Durham
Coventry
Huddersfield
Grimsby
Rochdale
Bradford; Keighley & Skipton
Leicester
Barnsley
Stoke
Derby
Telford & Bridgnorth
Blackburn
Mansfield
Burnley; Nelson & Colne
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Services as a proportion of total employment, 2000
of information-based service employment, both in terms of the overall growth of
information-based services and in terms of their quality as exemplii ed by the growth of
well paid KIBS in the greater south east as opposed to the growth of low pay call centres
in some northern cities.
7. Knowledge spillovers and key sectors; the role of KIBS
From an evolutionary perspective an important element of the information economy is
the spillover of knowledge from one i rm or organisation to another. Of particular inter-
est are the ways in which tacit and uncodii ed knowledge spills over and provides incen-
tives for spatial agglomeration to occur (Jaf e et al., 1993). Tacit knowledge does not
travel well and so tends to be spatially concentrated among geographically proximate
agents.
