Geography 2143A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Gross Domestic Product, Core Countries, Spacetime

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Silicon valley (another tech hub is boston, advantage of silicon valley is the free flow of information); tradable services stay concentrated (futures trading in. Chicago, insurance in hartford connecticut, movies in los angeles and currency trading in london: map of silicon valley , map of advertising agencies in manhattan , concentration of biotechnology across the states. Institutional investors (mostly in larger cities: nyc hqs for institutional investment red (greater than 200 b, grey in between 100 and. 200 b, blue less that 100 b: spatial inertia once you locate something somewhere it will be resistant to moving. 3 bn dollar steel plant wont move within 5 years: most advancing technologies to come biotechnology, nanotechnology, power, Machine learning: corporate geography falls between economics, business and geography, spatial interaction one thing that separates economic geography is spatial interaction which is the connections between places.