relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain … service productivity and innovation, and call for a conceptual re-working of the ways in which these are measured. They also … highlight the important role of knowledge in the production system and in doing so make an important contribution to a key …

Although the role of universities in the knowledge society is increasingly significant, there remains a severe lack of … – Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK …

Knowledge, Technological Catch-up and Economic Growth investigates the relationship between knowledge diffusion and … economic growth. Using a broad definition of knowledge - encompassing technology, production skills, know-how and firm … capabilities - the central argument of the book is that the extent of knowledge diffusion is an important determinant of economic …

Knowledge, Social Institutions and the Division of Labour gives rise to a new and richer institutional analysis of the … economy centred around the analysis of language, the division of labour and social knowledge. It is in this perspective that … of labour, starting from methodological problems on the communication of scientific knowledge. The volume goes on to …

economy. This insightful book explains the dynamics of regions in a global economy and sheds light on the role of knowledge in … driving regional growth. The author examines the way in which regions grow by receiving knowledge from surrounding regions …. Using evolutionary theory, she advances the argument that knowledge spillovers operate locally. Computer-simulations analyse …

difficult. This book attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between investment, knowledge spillovers and … empirical evidence regarding the spatial dimension of investment, entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers, and features both …, innovation, economic growth, economic integration and regional development will find this book to be of great interest. It will …

clusters, industrial networks and regional innovation systems. This book will appeal to academics and researchers of knowledge … the knowledge involved in their creation is likely to be dispersed and distributed between many individuals and over … numerous locations. The authors argue that even if one assumes that the internal knowledge base is of strategic importance to …

relationship between power, knowledge and time, in the context of capital accumulation and distribution. Michèle Javary presents a … explores current issues relating to the dynamics of technical change, innovation, learning and institutional change by reviving …