ABSTRACT
There has been much rhetoric about services in Greece. Sentiments suggesting that Greece has little chance of being competitive in industry, and that the only way forward is through services and tourism, have become popular. Pursuit of the implications of this position, however, has been neither systematic nor continuous. A research and policy vacuum has affected assessment of the role and importance not only of knowledge-intensive services (KIS), but also the service sector as a whole. This situation, of course, is not peculiar to Greece (Daniels and Moulaert 1991), but Greece is certainly a latecomer to service analysis.
