diffusion debate as well as presenting theoretical and applied models of knowledge diffusion and innovation. They illustrate how … other factor, thus highlighting the importance of linkages (or the effects of their absence) within innovation systems … students in the areas of the economics of innovation, evolutionary economics and knowledge economics."--BOOK JACKET …

related to the ability of countries to sustain regional clusters of competitiveness and innovation. The book reviews the most … important conceptual approaches to the analysis of the emergence, growth and evolution of clusters of innovation. Drawing from …