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it may not help at all if left on its own. ? Without deliberate action by government, both theory and experience to date suggest that the information economy will promote a divergence, rather than a convergence, of regional per capita ine levels. 。D activities tend to cluster spatially. ? Industries where technological spillovers are most important are more clustered spatially than industries where spillovers are less important. ? There is evidence that firms use other firms in a region to learn about and utilize new technology. Endogenous growth models do not give a clearcut answer to the question of whether the knowledge economy promotes convergence or divergence in regional per capita ine levels. ? They do, however, underline the importance of human capital and technological innovation to regionally differentiated development。 once the principle that physical presence in the workplace is not required to do certain jobs, these workers can be anywhere. ? The fact that this is all still anecdotal evidence means that it would be a mistake to generalize from these results. ? It is also true that most of these anecdotes relate to countries。We have talked briefly about socalled economic geography models and tied this discussion to endogenous growth models. This work has been pioneered by an economist named Paul Krugman. We are going to talk about his work and see how this can be related to the more general issue of the role of technology and the question of socalled knowledge industries as a new source of hope for lessdeveloped regions. Krugman’s work deals with a bination of trade theory and location theory. Standard trade theory basically ignores space as an explicit argument in trying to explain trade. A standard theory of trade essentially argues that countries parative advantage in trade depends on factor endowments. This model