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As Alfred Marshall observed over 100 years ago, one reason that it was advantageous for similar businesses to cluster in the same city was that workers got together in pubs after work and exchanged ideas. A similar phenomenon seems to have occurred in Austin, Texas, where the likely topic of conversation was software.1
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Kabir, J. (2008). Industrial Clusters in the Austin Area: The Austin Technopolis Case Study. In: Kuchiki, A., Tsuji, M. (eds) The Flowchart Approach to Industrial Cluster Policy. IDE-JETRO. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230589520_4
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