In this paper we analyze how firms’ knowledge absorption capacity – given the knowledge environment – affects the … theoretical arguments which imply that firms can influence the usefulness of their knowledge environment by establishing formal … and informal networks with input suppliers (especially suppliers of knowledge-intensive business services) and by …

reference to knowledge creation and other changes in knowledge assets. This is certainly a bit odd for a period of history often … referred to as the era of the knowledge economy. So, does knowledge have no role to play as a force driving re¬gional spe …¬cialisation and regional development? Or, is it so that the traditional “knowledge free” explanations of changes in regional …

and drivers of innovation, technology and knowledge. The role of absorptive capacity and knowledge flows between economic … multinationals contribute to innovation, technology and knowledge dispersion. The distribution of knowledge investments is uneven …This paper outlines a set of fundamental changes in the global economy that have altered the nature of the innovation …

This paper focuses on the concept of knowledge and examines models depicting and explaining the role of knowledge in … regional development and provides an assessment of empirical studies of how knowledge affects growth and development in … functional regions. For this paper it is crucial to understand those factors that make knowledge spatially sticky and knowledge …

This study examines how firms’ internal and external knowledge sources affect the introduction of new export products …’ export performance is influenced by internal knowledge, and the knowledge potential in the local and regional environment. In … the present study the knowledge milieu of the exporting firm is the local and regional knowledge potential that is …