Regional Development in the Knowledge Economy [Paperback]

International contributors provide the first examination of the growing subject of regional knowledge-economy development.

Illustrated by data and 'stylized' accounts, the international contributors chart the evolution of knowledge economies, questioning the way in which they work and criticize accepted theories and inform how places can cope in the knowledge economy.

Based in concept on Cooke's Knowledge Economies (Routledge, 2002), Regional Development in the Knowledge Economyis a well-grounded work exploring this increasingly important theme with relevance to innovation systems and related economic development literature.

Regional Development in the Knowledge Economy

Philip Cooke & Andrea Piccaluga

Chapter 1: Introduction: Regional Asymmetries, Knowledge Categories & Innovation Intermediation.

Philip Cooke (Cardiff University)

Chapter 2: Localised Knowledge Spillovers: The key to innovativeness in industrial clusters?

Marjolein Cani?ls (OU, Netherlands) & Henry Romijn (TU, Eindhoven)

Chapter 3: Knowledge-Intensive Industries and Regional Development: the Case of the Software Industry in Norway Arne Isaksen (STEP Group, Oslo)

Chapter 4:The impact of geography on the innovative productivity of software firm in the Netherlands

Anet Weterings and Ron Boschma (University of Utrecht)

Chapter 5: Constructing Regional Innovation Systems through a Triple Helix: Lessons and Inspiration from the Northern Hemisphere Bjorn Asheim & Lars Coenen (University of Lund)

Chapter 6: Sourcing of market knowledge in biotechnology. Maija Renko (University of Turku)

Chapter 7: Knowledge access at distance: strategies and practices of new biotechnology firms in emerging locationlC,