This important book takes a critical view on regional industry clusters, in particular their identification and formation, and the policies which help create and support them.

The attitudes of university faculty towards the expansion of universities’ missions to include assisting regional economic development and technology development by knowledge commercialization are analysed. Based upon surveys of faculty in the EU and in the United States, as well as secondary...

Einleitung -- Die Daten verstehen -- Verteilung von Zufallsvariablen -- Regression - die Grundlagen -- Auf der Suche nach dem besten Modell - Grundlagen -- Auf der Suche nach dem besten Modell - Beispiel.

The book provides the first comprehensive discussion of optimal search theory in a spatial context. By treating the alternatives of a search problem as spatially distributed, the standard structure of an optimal search model is altered considerably. The book discusses the basic structure of this...

This paper investigates interregional differences in earnings functions in Austria, in particular, the neoclassical hypothesis that regional earnings differentials can be eliminated by correcting for productivity-related characteristics. The results lead to a rejection of this hypothesis and...

This book presents new evidence concerning the influential role of context and institutions on the relations between knowledge, innovation, clusters and learning. From a truly international perspective, the expert contributors capture the most interesting and relevant aspects of knowledge economy.