Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Geography and Innovation [Paperback]

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of research on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation. This book brings together current thinking on this subject from geographic and territorial perspectives. Researchers from across Europe and North America present contributions from a wide range of disciplinary approaches including management studies, innovation studies and geography. They explore areas such as innovation related cooperation between KIBS firms and their industrial partners, how KIBS firms mediate business knowledge and the impact that KIBS make in local, regional and international contexts. The book offers a timely exploration of the role played by the geographic and institutional environment in the processes that link KIBS, innovation and territory across different contexts.This timely volume brings together current research on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation from a geographic or territorial perspective. Researchers from across Europe and North America explore areas such as innovation related cooperation between KIBS firms and their industrial partners, how KIBS firms mediate business knowledge and the impact that KIBS make in their local, regional and international contexts.David Doloreux and Mark Freel are both Associate Professor in the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, Canada and Richard Shearmur is Professeur-chercheur at INRS - Universit? du Qu?bec, Canada'A timely collection of studies into the regional innovative roles played by KIBS, which unusually links contemporary evidence from both sides of Atlantic. It also addresses some key conceptual and theoretical issues relating to the modern significant of KIBS for economic development at local, regional and national scales.' Peter Wood, University College London, UK 'This path breaking book systematically addresses surprisingly neglected issues: the cultural and geographical contexts that shape KIBS, their wil#„