Knowledge has become a key source of competitiveness for advanced regions and nations, indicating a transformation of capitalism towards “knowledge-driven economies“. Know ledge intensive sectors in production and in services have a lead in this respect, they can be considered as role models...

Over the past 20 years, the innovation system approach has significantly enhanced our understanding of the innovation process, stressing its non-linear, systemic, interactive and evolutionary character. The notion of regional innovation systems (RISs) highlights the regional dimension of new...

Durch die Ostöffnung und die Herausbildung des grenzüberschreitendenWirtschaftsraumes CENTROPE ergeben sich vielfältige Möglichkeiten fürsozioökonomische Verflechtungen und Austauschbeziehungen zwischen ÖsterreichsOstregionen und den Nachbargebieten in Ungarn, der Slowakei und der...

Knowledge has become a key source of competitiveness for advanced regions and nations, indicating a transformation of capitalism towards a “knowledge economy”. Knowledge intensive sectors in production and in services have a lead in this respect, they can be considered as role models for the...

This original and timely book presents the most comprehensive, empirically based analysis of clustering dynamics in the high-technology sector across liberal and co-ordinated market economies.