This volume was prepared by Erik Hornung while he was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The thesis consists of four core...

Setting the scene : steps towards a geographical political economy -- Conceptualising economies and their geographies : spaces, flows and circuits -- "The learning economy, the learning firm and the learning region" : a sympathetic critique of the limits to learning -- From knowledge-based...