This study identifies clusters of U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with similar knowledge traits. These groups … - ranging from Making Regions, characterized by knowledge about manufacturing, to Thinking Regions, noted for knowledge about … activities. In addition these knowledge-based clusters help explain the types of regions that have levels of economic development …

transition from industrial to knowledge societies. The approach followed consists of a theoretical analysis of the redefinition … due consideration. As a result, knowledge-based value is characterized through represented experience, i.e., acquired …. The paper concludes that a new economic culture shall evolve in parallel to the emergence of knowledge cities and …