This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems …. It emphasises the importance of these factors in the emergence of local innovation systems, using detailed examples of … political perspective, and highlight the local mechanisms which are involved in the development of innovation systems. They …

industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the …We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the …

industrial revolution. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of individual growth …We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging …

industrial revolution. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of individual growth …We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging …

The paper aims at investigating the role that one country's position in the international trade network has in …