This paper tests the importance of firm level knowledge and neighborhood diversity, as a source for localized knowledge … points to the importance of absorptive capacity. However, firm characteristics, such as the knowledge of the own employees …

This chapter intends to demonstrate that the Stockholm region is the key centre for knowledge development, innovations … tasks associated with a job. Moreover, the knowledge intensity of an ur-ban region can be related to the absorption capacity … creative ideas and a larger absorptive capacity. This allows the Stockholm region to function as a source of innovation and …

provided, and an examination of the spatial distribution. While there is a close relation between larger markets and knowledge …

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …

with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to … understand the current changes of the global and their implications for knowledge generation and innovation. Treating knowledge … as a key resource for innovation shifts the focus from the innovation itself to the process of knowledge generation …

and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In particular, we highlight how the global scene is changing in the … contemporary world economy that we char-acterize as a knowledge economy. We show how knowledge and knowledge dynamics is driving … innovation in the large urban agglomerations in the old and in new industrialized countries with their concentrations of …

), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political …