Journal Article
The Lowell high-tech success story: what went wrong?
Gittell, Ross J.; Flynn, Patricia M. (1995-03)
Ten years ago Lowell, Massachusetts was a high-tech success story. After several decades of stagnation, the Lowell area had emerged as a thriving center for high-technology employment. The Lowell story was viewed as a "model for reindustrialization" for older cities throughout the world. In recent years Lowell has once again become the focus of international attention, this time as an example of a failed economic development strategy. Widespread layoffs and plant closings within its computer industry, particularly the collapse of Wang Laboratories, have dealt a crushing blow to the local ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Mar , Pages 57-70

Journal Article
New England as the twenty-first century approaches: no time for complacency
Flynn, Patricia M.; Sedgley, Norman H.; Gittell, Ross J. (1999-11)
New England has undergone significant change in its employment and labor force over the past three decades. Employment in the region has shifted from manufacturing into services at a faster rate than it has in the United States as a whole. Within manufacturing the trend has been away from nondurable goods into high value-added, high-tech industries. In this transition, both income and productivity have increased more rapidly in the region than in the nation. ; Recent trends in population, labor force, and college degrees awarded pose threats to New England's long-term prosperity, however. ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Nov , Pages 41-53

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Technology life cycles and state economic development strategies
Flynn, Patricia M. (1994-05)
The extensive literature on state economic development efforts has not been much help to states in developing competitiveness strategies. The materials are primarily descriptive, with little evidence on success or failure of the experiments. In addition, state initiatives have not been viewed in a larger analytical framework that would permit generalizations and understanding of the dynamic processes underlying these changes. ; This article adopts production life-cycle models as a framework in which to analyze systematically the interrelationships between industrial and technological change, ...
New England Economic Review , Issue May , Pages 17-30