The South Indian metropolis of Bangalore has become known worldwide as a hub of the global knowledge economy, whose name has become synonymous in the international media with the outsourcing of white-collar jobs from North America and Western Europe. A major center of back-office operations and customer support services since the mid-1990s, Bangalore is increasingly a place where more sophisticated technology functions and management activities occur. With a population swollen by the return of educated migrants from elsewhere in India and returning Indian nationals who began their careers in Silicon Valley and other established high-tech clusters, Bangalore is in many respects an archetypal world city whose post-industrial economy relies on sophisticated technologies and global networks of people, firms, and production chains. The data gathered by our research group gives a window into how Bangalore's ascent to the top tier of the world's technology regions has played out in urban space.
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