This paper deals with institutional conditions in regional innovation systems; how institutions affect the organization … of innovation activities among firms, and in what ways regional policy initiatives can be supportive. The analysis draws … on data on innovation networks and activities in the life science, media, and food industries. The theoretical framework …

Progress in our understanding of the role of knowledge in the economy, based on Nelson and Winter's book published in …

innovation at the sectoral level. Despite considerable interest in David and Foray's (1995) work on the codification of knowledge …This paper explores ongoing debates about the role that codified forms of knowledge play in fostering firms' and … and the changing nature of innovation due to the use of information and communication technologies, there are relatively …

learning and collaborative innovation. Different forms of proximity include geographical, cognitive, social, institutional and … framework by theorizing how the relative importance of each proximity dimension depends on the type of knowledge being produced …, where we distinguish between analytical, synthetic and symbolic knowledge. We argue that our theoretical framework in …

knowledge base approach in empirical innovation studies, regardless of industrial, geographical or temporal context. The paper … thereby dismisses the wide-spread taxonomical application of knowledge base conceptualizations in innovation studies and …This paper has three aims. Firstly, to provide a critical review of previous conceptualizations of the knowledge base …

world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills--the right "human capital"--reap the majority of the … vicious one, as a lack of human capital leads to family breakdown, unemployment, dysfunction, and further erosion of knowledge …

world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills--the right "human capital"--reap the majority of the … vicious one, as a lack of human capital leads to family breakdown, unemployment, dysfunction, and further erosion of knowledge …