This book provides a comprehensive picture of the location of technological innovation of multinational corporations in the European Union. The increasingly global research strategies of the world's largest firms are analyzed at a detailed regional level across the major EU countries. This...

The creative economy is a holistic and multidisciplinary concept that deals with the interaction between economics, culture and technology, and centred on the production of creative contents in goods and services. One of the most relevant dimensions of creativity is the territorial one. Despite...

The aim of this book is to present a much-needed conceptualization of 'the learning region'. The editors scrutinize key concepts and issues surrounding this phenomenon, which are then discussed in the context of recent literature. This unique conceptualization of the learning region presents a...