Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Urban Industrial Development

Heidi Wiig () and Arne Isaksen

The Service Industries Journal, 2007, vol. 27, issue 3, 321-338

Abstract: This paper analyses the role of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) as innovation agents for other firms and industries with empirical evidence from the capital region of Oslo, Norway. It focuses in particular on the role of two sectors (software industry and organisational consultants) in stimulating innovation and growth, showing that firms in the two KIBS sectors mainly provide products and services tailored to individual clients and have frequent face-to-face meetings, relationships that may stimulate innovation. Moreover, data reveal that Oslo firms are more frequent users of consultancy services than firms located outside urban areas, suggesting a gap between ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/02642060701207239

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