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 …

pt. 1. Innovation, agglomeration and location -- pt. 2. Regional competition …

process. While addressing different facets of knowledge, innovation and space, the authors provide an overview of relevant … topics in contemporary research concerned with the global, national, regional and local dynamics of knowledge and innovation …. Knowledge itself is a raw input into the innovation process, which can then transform it into an economically useful output such …