Innovation network has been viewed as one of the most important means in improving technological capabilities for decades. Based on literature review, this paper presents a conceptual model on the relationships between the construction of innovation networks and the development of technological...

Notwithstanding their remarkable recent growth, surprisingly little research has hitherto been conducted on the evolving geography of professional and business services in Britain. This paper analyses the results of a detailed survey of 300 small and medium-sized management and engineering...

KEEBLE D. and WILKINSON F. (1999) Collective learning and knowledge development in the evolution of regional clusters of high technology SMEs in Europe, Reg. Studies 33 , 295-303 . This paper outlines the aims and objectives of the TSER Network on Networks, Collective Learning and Research and...

A popular argument about economic policy under uncertainty states that decentralisation offers the possibility to learn from local or regional policy experiments. We argue that such learning processes are not trivial and do not occur frictionlessly: Voters have an inherent tendency to retain a...

LINDHOLM DAHLSTRAND Å. (1999) Technology-based SMEs in the Go ¨teborg region: their origin and interaction with universities and large firms, Reg. Studies 33 , 379-389 . This paper investigates the local origins and continued regional interaction of a group of new technology-intensive Go...

LAWSON C. and LORENZ E. (1999) Collective learning, tacit knowledge and regional innovative capacity, Reg. Studies 33 , 305-317 . The paper reviews key ideas in the firm capabilities literature and shows how they can be usefully extended to develop a conception of collective learning among...

KEEBLE D., LAWSON C., MOORE B. and WILKINSON F. (1999) Collective learning processes, networking and 'institutional thickness' in the Cambridge region, Reg. Studies 33 , 319-332 . The paper investigates the nature and extent of regional collective learning processes and networking by innovative,...

DE BERNARDY M. (1999) Reactive and proactive local territory: co-operation and community in Grenoble, Reg. Studies 33 , 343-352 . Local again! Despite the pressures of globalization and hypercompetition, local embeddedness and proximity appear to be decisive factors in the competitive advantage...