ABSTRACT
Technology, knowledge and jobs are key ideas in the field of regional development. The unrelenting shift toward the service sector and toward high-technology and knowledge-oriented work is evidence that technology is changing. Many changes attributed to globalization are really outcomes of technological change – a result of enabling digital technologies, managerial techniques, and financial innovations. A recent innovation, the Internet, has loosened information asymmetries (if knowledge is power, many more are now powerful) and transformed shopping. Scholars, too, have benefited from the Internet and access to efficient communication and information. Google, the firm whose name we now use as a verb for searching the web, began only in 1998 (Google 2004).
