Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong … correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the … other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent discrepancies between knowledge inputs and economic performance …

conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge … including Rotterdam, Vienna and Munich. The book also examines the reality of knowledge cities in emerging economies such as …, knowledge spillovers among firms and the connectivity of cities via transport networks to allow the creation of new hubs of …