This contributed volume studies and explains the effect that agglomeration exerts on a firm’s innovation and … performance. It presents new cases as well as new topics within the agglomeration phenomenon, exploring also their role under the …, labor mobility, firm’s strategies, innovation, competitiveness and collective actions across a diverse set of literatures …

Activities, Innovation and Regional Networks -- Part III: Knowledge Transfers Between University and Industry … the cooperation process between firms and universities and the transfer of knowledge in guiding and nurturing regional … inter-firm cooperation in regional clusters, innovation and regional networks, and the role of universities in them . It …

North America. Considerable emphasis is laid on the role of entrepreneurship and innovation as drivers of economic growth … book discusses the role of entrepreneurship and innovation as drivers of economic growth and development on the sub …

This book provides a coherent and useful framework to explain the formation of agglomeration and the endogenous … innovation process of upgrading industrial clusters to the higher R&D. It contains country studies including; China, India, Japan …

This book places knowledge, learning and innovation at the heart of cross-sector collaborations. Collaboration for … necessary for firms to share knowledge and innovation through a process of learning. The book contributes to this by providing … dimensions of knowledge, learning and innovation and discusses how collaboration can be created, sustained, and expanded …

relocation of certain knowledge areas from physicians to patients in self-care management or the reconfiguration of health care … relocation of innovative visual knowledge and expertise within health care organisations and beyond, such as in the patient …

Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I Theoretical Advancement on Regional Innovation (System) Research -- Part II … Empirical Cases of RIS Development -- Part III Regional Innovation Policy. …This book discusses the latest theoretical advances in regional innovation research, presents empirical cases involving …

Introduction -- 1. The theoretical foundations of specialization, agglomeration and concentration -- 2. A review of …

Space, Growth and Development -- Institutions and Culture -- Agglomeration Economies, the Location of Economic … Activities and Innovation -- Geography in Motion: Trade, FDI and Migrations … Geography, Urban and Regional Economics, Innovation Studies) with different approaches to the same crucial issue: how geography …