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 …

local and national systems of innovation. It analyses both the success of the triple helix as a descriptive and empirical … regional or national systems that wish to expand their innovation processes and industrial development. In addition, it …pt. I. How to capitalize knowledge -- pt. II. Triple helix in the knowledge economy …

economies /Nigel F.B. Allington and John S.L. McCombie --Knowledge externalities and growth in peripheral regions /Fabiana … Santos, Marco Crocco, and Frederico Jayme, Jr. --Knowledge, human capital and foreign direct investment in developing …

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 …

into innovation. Does this therefore render cultural and social knowledge unimportant? The contributors attempt to answer …Knowledge Policy illustrates how the production of knowledge has become central to economic life, and that … competitiveness in the 21st century market place is characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge …

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 …

-skilled and low-skilled workers in the knowledge economy will be welcomed by economists and policymakers interested in the complex … relationships between labour markets, innovation and technical change …

the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis …--utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and concepts such as knowledge life cycles, experimental … knowledge creation, and knowledge ethics--are leading to a perception that regional economies increasingly resemble knowledge …