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The Clustering of Financial Services in London*
Gary A. S. Cook
Management School, Liverpool University, UK
Naresh R. Pandit**
Manchester Business School, University of Manchester,
Booth Street West, Manchester M15 6PB, UK
[email protected]
Jonathan V. Beaverstock
Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK
Peter J. Taylor
Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK
Kathy Pain
Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK
* This research was partly funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and partly funded by the
Corporation of London. We would like to thank all our interviewees and to acknowledge input from Malcolm
Cooper, Helen Greenwood, Peter Hall, Michael Hoyler, Robert Kloosterman, Nick Owen, and David Walker.
Thanks also to the participants of the 9th annual High Technology Small Firms Conference (Manchester
Business School, UK, May-June, 2001), the 9th Biennial International J. A. Schumpeter Society Congress
(Florida, USA, 28-30 March 2002), the Special One-Day Clusters Conference (Manchester Business School,
UK, 18 April 2002), the 1st Business Innovation in the Knowledge Economy Conference (IBM Warwick,
UK, 12 June, 2002), the Uddevalla Symposium on Entrepreneurship, Spatial Industrial Clusters and Inter-
Firm Networks (Uddevalla, Sweden, 12 -14 June 2003) and the 30th European Association for Research in
Industrial Economics (EARIE) Annual Conference (Helsinki, Finland, 24-26 September 2003). None of
these are responsible for any remaining errors.
** Corresponding author.