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South African and International lessons for the SDIs

The Midrand area: An emerging high‐technology cluster?

Pages 851-873 | Published online: 27 Feb 2008

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  • Economist, Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU), University of Cape Town. This research formed part of a larger study of high‐tech clusters in developing countries for which funding was provided by the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. The author is indebted to Saul Levin for his assistance, and to the group of SDI researchers at the DPRU for their comments and suggestions. Thanks to Nick Lin‐denberg of the ITS GIS lab at UCT for much help with producing the maps.

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