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 …

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 …

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 … into innovation. Does this therefore render cultural and social knowledge unimportant? The contributors attempt to answer …

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 … many companies, most of the knowledge used by the majority of companies is developed outside the company. Since much …