encouraging, supporting, and advancing knowledge production (research, research and experimental development, R&D) and knowledge … of its employees (and their competences) as a potential opportunity and asset to perform creatively in knowledge … production and knowledge application. The academic firm has an interest to engage in networks with universities (higher education …

regional sciences. The knowledge economy as a primary driver of spatial restructuring is forming these relations by generating … knowledge within a spatially fine graded division of labor. This process drives companies to cooperate in intra firm and extra … functional urban areas has a high influence on their performance over time with regard to output indicators like labor, value …

the knowledge economy. New forms of network economies and functional differentiation between cities and towns can be …

The knowledge economy plays a key role in the spatial development of cities and towns. Options of flexible spatial … establishes complex network economies in which knowledge-intensive firms are linked together in both physical and non …-physical ways. Many international knowledge-intensive enterprises have already recognized the advantage of being located around …

knowledge work. Here, I analyze spatial collaboration patterns of some 191 thousand software developers in the United States on …

World cities are important nodes in the global networks of knowledge-based economies. As a result of the growing … complexity of knowledge creation, firms increasingly organise their activities in business networks that operate across different … metropolitan orbit of one or several big cities. The growth of the knowledge economy has led to new forms of business networks …