This Element combines the advances of the economics of knowledge and innovation implementing the Schumpeterian notion …

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

groups of 50 variables (knowledge, innovation, entrepreneurship, business foundation, cultural framework, creative magnetism … extensive literature search. Its purpose is to rank cities in Latin America on their capability to create knowledge …

(measured as proximity to large centres of population) increasingly matters in the knowledge economy, then there may be no …

We investigate the role of universities as a knowledge source for regional innovation processes. The contribution of … pure size is unimportant. Therefore, a policy that wants to promote regional innovation processes by building up … effects of universities to be concentrated in space. Obviously, the geographical proximity to particular knowledge sources is …

, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more generally, the economics of intellectual property rights. This paper argues …

The intellectual breakthrough contributed by the new growth theory was the recognition that investments in knowledge … and human capital endogenously generate economic growth through the spillover of knowledge. Endogenous growth theory does … not explain how or why spillovers occur. The missing link is the mechanism converting knowledge into economically relevant …