 When the Oryx takes off: Doha a new rising knowledge hub in the Gulf region?Sven Conventz, Alain Thierstein, Florian Wiedmann and Ashraf M. Salama International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 2015, vol. 6, issue 1, 65-82 Abstract: With accelerating pace in the past years, Qatar has strategically pushed forward its economic diversification. According to Qatar's long-term development vision, the knowledge-economy is taking a key role within this economic diversification process and the transformation of its capital into a regional as well as global service-hub. This paper aims at identifying emerging knowledge-based patterns that drive the Qatari space economy. We apply a research concept that brings together two different scientific angles: relational economic geography and physical urban development aspects. The results indicate first a subsidiary role for the Qatari knowledge intensive firms within the Gulf region; second their predominant connectivity patterns to Europe and South-East Asia; third as a distinct lack of urban amenities and qualities for knowledge workers. Keywords: knowledge economy; Doha; Qatar; Gulf states; advanced producer services; APSs; high technology; urban hierarchy; urban development; economic geography; interlocking network analysis; space syntax; knowledge hubs; economic diversification; knowledge intensive firms; high tech firms; knowledge workers; connectivity patterns; urban amenities. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijkbde:v:6:y:2015:i:1:p:65-82 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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