Just as much as people were attracted to ports, railway stations or motorway intersections in past centuries, airports have rapidly become new urban growth generators, hubs of information and knowledge exchange as well as centers of competence of the networked economy. Increasingly, knowledge-intensive companies perceive airports as advantageous business locations and not primarily as a transportation node. Multimodality combined with an extensive business infrastructure is understood as the competitive edge within an international time-sensitive and networked competition.
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Just as much as people were attracted to ports, railway stations or motorway intersections in past centuries, airports have rapidly become new urban growth generators, hubs of information and knowledge exchange as well as centers of competence of the networked economy. Increasingly, knowledge-intensive companies perceive airports as advantageous business locations and not primarily as a transportation node. Multimodality combined with an extensive business infrastructure is understood as the com...
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