This paper surveys the literature and develops a framework for research into the integration of distributed knowledge … work (DKW). Knowledge work is considered to be “distributed” whenever key decisions for execution of the project cut across … recent years is well documented. Nonetheless, research into maintaining the coherence of a distributed knowledge work project …

Scientific collaboration, in most cases, is seen a joint action on a global scale that involves researchers from not … just one region or one country but instead forming an international network of researchers. This type of epistemic … communities build up especially in the case of analytical modes of knowledge production. Rationales for a global science system …

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 …