Understanding the high tech sector in the Cape Metropolitan Region: a contribution to the development of a regional strategy for high tech industry

Amanda Driver and James Hodge ()
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Working Papers from University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit

Abstract: The aim of this working paper is to contribute to a strategy for developing the high tech sector in the Cape Metropolitan Region (CMR) through a better understanding of the high tech firms that already exist. It investigates the following: - which high tech firms operate in the CMR; - why they chose to locate here; - what problems they face; - what would help them to expand and grow.

Keywords: South Africa: high tech firms; Cape Metropolitan Region (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2000-03
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Published in Working Paper Series by the Development Policy Research Unit, March 2000, pages 1-55

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