caa a22 4500 47707636X CHVBK 20180405111439.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01580539 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01580539 Advanced communications and employment creation in rural and peripheral regions: a case study of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland [Elektronische Daten] [Ranald Richardson, Andrew Gillespie] Over the last decade, the potential of Advanced Communications (ACs) to contribute to regional economic development has been of increasing interest to policy makers. Recent policy in Europe has focused particularly on how ACs can contribute to job creation in peripheral or less favoured regions, through various forms of teleworking. This paper argues that most policy initiatives in this area have been underlain by a conceptual model which assumes that advanced infrastructure and services will contribute to job creation (or preservation) through improving the competitiveness of existing regional firms, particularly SMEs, through enhancing access to core markets. The paper questions the empirical validity of this model and proposes, on the basis of a case study of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, that in reality employment growth is more likely to result from inward investment — from exogenous firms accessing under-utilised regional attributes such as labour supplies — than through growth in indigenous firms. Springer-Verlag, 1996 Richardson Ranald Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK aut Gillespie Andrew Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK aut The Annals of Regional Science Springer-Verlag 30/1(1996-03-01), 91-110 0570-1864 30:1<91 1996 30 168 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01580539 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01580539 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Richardson Ranald Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gillespie Andrew Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Annals of Regional Science Springer-Verlag 30/1(1996-03-01), 91-110 0570-1864 30:1<91 1996 30 168 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer