Guy Steed, Ph.D. (Washington, 1966), is an industrial geographer and now a private consultant specializing in

• the knowledge-based economy and knowledge management
• industrial innovation, technology transfer and diffusion, industrial competitiveness and innovation systems (national, regional and sectoral).

Selected Literature:

"The Implications of the Knowledge-Based Economy for Future Science and Technology Policies", co-authored paper published by OECD in 1995.

Not a Long Shot: Canadian Industrial Science and Technology Policy (1989) (book, translated into Chinese)

"Policy and High Technology Complexes: Ottawa's Silicon Valley North" (1987)

(with D.DeGenova) Ottowa's Technology-Oriented Complex, The Canadian Geographer 27, 1983, 262-78.

Steed, G.P.F. Threshold Firms: Backing Canada's Winners. Science Council of Canada. Background Study #48, (Ottawa) 1982.

International Location and Comparative Advantage: The Clothing Industries in Developing Economies. In: F.E.I.Hamilton and G.J.R.Linge, eds., Spatial Analysis, Industry and the Industrial Environment. Vol.2, London: Wiley, 1981, pp.265-303.

Product Differentiation, Locational Protection and Economic Integration: Western Europe's Clothing Industries, Geoforum 9, 1978, 307-18.

Global Industrial Systems -- a Case Study of the Clothing Industry, Geoforum 9, 1978, 35-47.

Centrality and Locational Change: Printing, Publishing, and Clothing in Montreal and Toronto. Economic Geography 47, 1976, pp.371-83.

Locational Factors and Dynamics of Montreal's Large Garment Complex, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 67, 1976, 151-68.

Standardization, Scale, Incubation, and Inertia: Montreal and Toronto Clothing Industries, The Canadian Geographer 20, 1976, 298-309.

The Northern Ireland Linen Complex, 1960-1970, Annals, Association of American Geographersm 64, 1974, 397-408.

Forms of Corporate-Environmental Adaptation, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 62, March/April 1971,

Plant Adaptation, Firm Environments and Location Analysis, Professional Geographer 23, 1971, 324-8.

Changing Processes of Corporate Environment Relations, Area, 3(4), 1971, pp.207-11.

Internal Organization, Firm Integration and Locational Change: The Northern Ireland Linen Complex 1954-1964, Economic Geography, 47, 1971, 371-83.

Changing Linkages and Internal Multiplier of an Industrial Complex, Canadian Geographer 3, 1970, 229-42.

Corporate Enterprise and the Locational Decision Process, in: Sewell, W.D.R. and Harold D. Foster, eds., The Geographer and Society. Victoria , B.C.: University of Victoria, 1970.

The Changing Milieu of the Firm, in: Annals, Assoc. of American Geog. 58 (1968), 506-25.