High‐technology clusters and infrastructure development: international and South African experiences

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• Professor and Head, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Thanks are due to Teresa Dirsuweit and Jayne Rogerson for research assistance, to Phil Stickler for preparing the maps and to the Centre for Science Development, Pretoria, for research funding of the industrial registers. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author alone:
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