ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors provide a bridge between the location specific and the international restructuring types of approach to studying the geography of high technology industry. They examine some of the dominant types of corporate response to competitive pressure in one sectoral and geographical sub-set of high technology industry that involved in the production of information technology in Europe and then to consider some of the regional development implications of these dominant forms of restructuring process. The internationalisation of markets for Information Technology (IT) products has preceded the internationalisation of production per se, in accordance with Palloix, who predicted a sequence in which the internationalisation of commodity capital takes place earlier than that for either money capital or productive capital. The European IT industries already display marked geographical concentration, with the major metropolitan regions of France, the Low Countries, Germany, Northern Italy and the UK dominating the geography of IT production in Europe.
