This paper examines R&D activities in the European Community using the Community R&D Information Service (CORDIS) databases. We find that a country's private companies tend to be specialized in the same scientific fields as its universities and public organizations. In addition, we construct...

This chapter focuses on the geographic dimensions of knowledge spillovers. The starting point comes from the economics of innovation and technological change. This tradition focused on the innovation production function however it was aspatial or insensitive to issues involving location and...

The geography of innovation describes the importance of proximity and location to innovative activity. As part of what has been termed the new economic geography, this area of research is less than 20 years old, and is now developed sufficiently so that the discussion can be organized around...

This paper examines the internal anatomy of regional social capital and develops a role for dealmakers – individuals who provide active regional stewardship. An empirical analysis of twelve US regions finds great variation in the presence of dealmakers. The strong local presence of dealmakers...

Examines the degree to which small firm innovation is dependent upon the external resources of location. Four classes of resource-yielding institutions are identified: university R&D, industrial R&D, agglomerations and clusters of firms in related industries, and networks of business service...

The principal argument examined is that entrepreneurs help to form innovative industrial clusters and spark regional competitive advantage. First, a model of the role of entrepreneurs in cluster formation is presented. An illustrative example of the model is then presented in the form of an...

The tendency for innovative industry to clusterspatially has been documented by scholarship; yet, questions are still raisedabout the role of government policy in cluster formation andsustainability. The authors focus on the emergence of the U.S. Capitolregion as an important biotech cluster in...

The rapid change of information and communication technologies (ICT) -- from the telegraph, radio, telephone, and fax to the Internet -- has prompted many scholars to ask how the Internet and related digital technology will affect the tendency for innovation activity to cluster geographically....

This paper analyzes factors that shape the technological capabilities of individual U.S. states and European countries, which are arguably comparable policy units. The analysis demonstrates convergence in technological capabilities from 2000 to 2007. The results indicate that social...