"This book illustrates new approaches to service innovation and new methodologies from the knowledge science and system …New trends in service science and education for service innovation / Michitaka Kosaka, Kunio Shirahada -- A concept of … -- Modeling of service value creation based on multidisciplinary framework / Kotaro Nakamura -- The dynamics of knowledge co …

that creativity, invention and innovation are manifested and flourish in select American, European, and Asian knowledge …-based innovation networks and knowledge clusters. This book will present a number of conceptual and emperical studies from the USA …, Europe and Asia, that contribute to a better understanding of the role of knowledge in the theory and practice of …

, regional, and national scale. In order to effect and sustain a positive change, innovation and knowledge networks need to be …In the 21st century, intangible resources such as knowledge and social capital have become as necessary to the modern …