1. Introduction : co-evolution, complexity and emergence in regional innovation systems -- 2. What went wrong with the vertical process and policy-perspective? -- 3. What is transversality? -- 4. The co-evolutionary origins of transversality -- 5. Transversality and transition in innovation and...

This contribution develops critique from analysing forms of misconduct by knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms, especially the largest, globally located and client-interactive on all five continents. Management consultancy infractions range from supplying spurious advice, to...

Changes in epistemology in biosciences are generating important spatial effects. The most notable of these is the emergence of a few Bioscience Megacentres of basic and applied bioscience (molecular, post-genomic, proteomics, etc.) medical and clinical research, biotechnology research, training...

This paper brings together two related bodies of theory that assist understanding of processes of socio-technical system change on the global scale. These are, first, the Global Value Chain perspective (GVC) that has now mutated into Global Production Networks (GPN) and, more recently, Global...

This paper offers an account of the recent economic slowdown in the growth trajectory formerly enjoyed by South Korea as one of the first 'Asian Tigers'. Indicators are provided that, unlike the others, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan that have continued their upward profile, South Korea has...

The aim of this paper is to attempt to understand why the popular academic and policy field of promoting, studying and evangelising "entrepreneurship" should have been associated with great success but, in the past twenty years or more in many advanced economies, so much failure. From the US to...