This chapter focuses on the geographic dimensions of knowledge spillovers. The starting point comes from the economics … aspatial or insensitive to issues involving location and geography. However, empirical results hinted that knowledge production … had a spatial dimension. Armed with a new theoretical understanding about the role and significance of knowledge …

questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different … possible different attitudes and patterns of innovation that we control for, such as regional preconditions for knowledge and …