co-existence of high levels of buzz and many pipelines may provide firms located in outward looking and lively clusters …The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge … the realm of tacit knowledge transfer is confined to local milieus whereas codified knowledge may roam the globe almost …

need to be more careful with the assumption of technological knowledge spillovers in innovative clusters. The significant …A widespread assumption in economic geography and the economics of innovation is that firms located in clusters benefit … from territorial learning and knowledge spillovers. However, it remains unclear to what extent these benefits actually …

The paper addresses two recent interrelated phenomena: High- tech regional knowledge clusters, and globalization of R … social networks, the paper discusses determinants of entry modes used by MNCs that localize R&D units in regional knowledge … clusters. The paper states that the entry mode used by a MNC depends upon the type of agglomeration economies the latter seeks …

Inspired by the resource- and knowledge-based views, much attention has been focused on knowledge transfer as a process … of strategic importance. Still, many open questions regarding knowledge transfer processes need to be addressed to … complete our understanding. For instance, what are the barriers to knowledge transfer, and what are the facilitators? A review …

Despite the diffusion of communication tools and boundary spanning technologies, knowledge flows in innovation … processes retain a distinct localized nature in many industries and geographical clusters emerge as critical areas to foster … technological diffusion. In this paper we focus on the role of focal firms in industrial clusters as “gatekeepers” introducing …

Technological knowledge is often claimed to be context-bound and sticking to local surroundings. This paper … investigates how technological knowledge can be exchanged in international subcontractor relationships, using relationship …

distinctive knowledge base means that adopting another nation's methods will depend on local learning involving trial and error …

corporate capacity to strike a favorable balance between the production and the exploitation of new knowledge. This argument is …