has brought about an increase of the demand for knowledge as well as changed the conditions for knowledge production and … and drivers of innovation, technology and knowledge. The role of absorptive capacity and knowledge flows between economic … central role for the transfer of knowledge between different parts of the world. This paper thoroughly examines the way …

This paper focuses on the concept of knowledge and examines models depicting and explaining the role of knowledge in … regional development and provides an assessment of empirical studies of how knowledge affects growth and development in … functional regions. For this paper it is crucial to understand those factors that make knowledge spatially sticky and knowledge …

This study examines how firms’ internal and external knowledge sources affect the introduction of new export products …’ export performance is influenced by internal knowledge, and the knowledge potential in the local and regional environment. In … the present study the knowledge milieu of the exporting firm is the local and regional knowledge potential that is …

with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to … understand the current changes of the global and their implications for knowledge generation and innovation. Treating knowledge … as a key resource for innovation shifts the focus from the innovation itself to the process of knowledge generation …

and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In particular, we highlight how the global scene is changing in the … contemporary world economy that we char-acterize as a knowledge economy. We show how knowledge and knowledge dynamics is driving …

This chapter intends to demonstrate that the Stockholm region is the key centre for knowledge development, innovations … tasks associated with a job. Moreover, the knowledge intensity of an ur-ban region can be related to the absorption capacity …

In this paper we analyze how firms’ knowledge absorption capacity – given the knowledge environment – affects the … theoretical arguments which imply that firms can influence the usefulness of their knowledge environment by establishing formal … and informal networks with input suppliers (especially suppliers of knowledge-intensive business services) and by …

reference to knowledge creation and other changes in knowledge assets. This is certainly a bit odd for a period of history often … referred to as the era of the knowledge economy. So, does knowledge have no role to play as a force driving re¬gional spe …¬cialisation and regional development? Or, is it so that the traditional “knowledge free” explanations of changes in regional …

In recent decades the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy. For example, the evolution in … formation. For the OECD countries in particular, we can observe a transfer from an industrial economy to a knowledge economy …. The supporting evidences are overwhelming and indicate that the trend is global. The emerging knowledge economy have …