creation perspective / Mitsuru Kodama -- 3. Knowledge convergence and design-driven innovation through boundaries knowledge … - new knowledge from the knowledge convergence and design-driven innovation perspectives / Mitsuru Kodama and Masashi Kimura … -- 4. Product and service innovation through boundaries vision and boundaries knowledge - new knowledge from the corporate …

Although the role of universities in the knowledge society is increasingly significant, there remains a severe lack of … – Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK …

Knowledge, Technological Catch-up and Economic Growth investigates the relationship between knowledge diffusion and … economic growth. Using a broad definition of knowledge - encompassing technology, production skills, know-how and firm … capabilities - the central argument of the book is that the extent of knowledge diffusion is an important determinant of economic …

economy. This insightful book explains the dynamics of regions in a global economy and sheds light on the role of knowledge in … driving regional growth. The author examines the way in which regions grow by receiving knowledge from surrounding regions …. Using evolutionary theory, she advances the argument that knowledge spillovers operate locally. Computer-simulations analyse …

into innovation. Does this therefore render cultural and social knowledge unimportant? The contributors attempt to answer …Knowledge Policy illustrates how the production of knowledge has become central to economic life, and that … competitiveness in the 21st century market place is characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge …

clusters, industrial networks and regional innovation systems. This book will appeal to academics and researchers of knowledge … the knowledge involved in their creation is likely to be dispersed and distributed between many individuals and over … numerous locations. The authors argue that even if one assumes that the internal knowledge base is of strategic importance to …

The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge aims to reach a unique understanding of science with the help of economic and …

, discrimination, and choice in rationalizing women's exclusion from fully participating in the process of knowledge production, as … universal difficulties that women encounter as they seek to participate fully in the process of knowledge production … / Ann Mari May -- 3. Gender, professional knowledge, and institutional power : women social scientists and the research …

the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis …--utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and concepts such as knowledge life cycles, experimental … knowledge creation, and knowledge ethics--are leading to a perception that regional economies increasingly resemble knowledge …

This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems …. It emphasises the importance of these factors in the emergence of local innovation systems, using detailed examples of … political perspective, and highlight the local mechanisms which are involved in the development of innovation systems. They …