Following the development of knowledge economies, there has been a rapid expansion of economic analysis of knowledge …, both in the context of technological knowledge in particular and the decision theory in general. This paper surveys this … of knowledge related questions in terms of applicability and alternative approaches has led to the fragmentation of …

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 …

The literature on knowledge spillovers offers substantial evidence that workers, as main carriers of knowledge, play a … role in the diffusion of knowledge among firms. One of the channels through which knowledge is diffused is the job … qualified workers ; technological change ; knowledge transmission …