While a market economy seeks equilibrium, a knowledge-based economy may upset this tendency towards stabilization by … Netherlands are tested: medium-tech manufacturing is the main driver of a knowledge-based configuration in a regional economy …, while knowledge-intensive services tend to uncouple the economy from the regional configuration. At the level of regions …

We investigate the role of universities as a knowledge source for regional innovation processes. The contribution of …

We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … of laser knowledge was especially prevalent in large agglomerations. While we cannot detect knowledge spillovers from … research later, indicating the accumulation of knowledge generated in previous periods. Our results highlight the role of a …