Knowledge, Innovation and Space

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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This volume extends our understanding of the many different ways in which distance impacts the knowledge conversion process. While addressing different facets of knowledge, innovation and space, the authors provide an overview of relevant topics in contemporary research concerned with the global, national, regional and local dynamics of knowledge and innovation.Knowledge itself is a raw input into the innovation process, which can then transform it into an economically useful output such as a prototype, patent, licence or new firm. New knowledge is often tacit and thus tends to be highly localized, as indeed is the conversion process. Consequently, as the book demonstrates, space or distance matter significantly in the transformation of raw knowledge into beneficial knowledge.This innovative book will appeal to academics, students and researchers in the fields of regional science, economics, sociology and innovation. It will also be of interest to policymakers and consultants in international organizations, in particular those dealing with entrepreneurship, development, R&D policies and regional policies on different spatial scales.Contributors include: M. Andersson, T. Arvemo, M. Backman, L. Bjerke, A.P. Cornett, O. Ejermo, U. Gråsjö, T. Hatori, H. Jeong, B. Johansson, S. Johansson, C. Karlsson, K. Kobayashi, H. Lawton-Smith, S. Ochi, M. Okumura, O. Raspe, R.R. Stough, M. Tsukai, T. Ueda, F Van Oort, R. Waters, M. Yokomatsu

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-07-25
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Horizons in Regional Science series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781848449015

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Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Professor Emeritus of the Economics of Technological Change, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University and Professor Emeritus of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology, the late Börje Johansson, formerly Professor of Economics, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Jönköping and Director, CESIS (Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and the late Roger R. Stough, formerly School of Policy, Government and International Affairs, George Mason University, US

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:Preface1. Knowledge, Innovation and Space: IntroductionCharlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson, Kiyoshi Kobayashi and Roger R. StoughPART I THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSES2. Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Innovative Urban EnvironmentsOtto Raspe and Frank Van Orte3. Accessibility to R&D: A Reexamination of the Consequences for Invention and InnovationOlof Ejermo and Urban Gråsjö4. Imports and Regional DevelopmentMartin Andersson, Lina Bjerke and Charlie Karlsson5. The Influence of Knowledge on Firms’ Export DecisionsSara Johansson6. Knowledge and Skill for Infrastructure Technology and Economic GrowthSeiki Ochi, Takayuki Ueda and Muneta Yokomatsu7. Business Service Location with Spatially Stochastic Demands: Agglomeration Economies Generated by the Intersection of Costs and Localized Uncertain Demand - An Optimal Stock Location Model ApproachMakoto Okumura and Makoto Tsukai8. Regional Learning and Trust FormationTsuyoshi Hatori, Hayeong Jeong and Kiyoshi Kobayashi9. Cluster Development Policy as a Tool in Regional Development and Competitiveness Policy – Theoretical Concepts and Empirical EvidenceAndreas P. CornettPART II UNIVERSITIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION CASE ANALYSES10. Returns to Higher Education: A Regional PerspectiveMikaela Backman and Lina Bjerke11. Universities, Science and Engineering Labour Markets in High Technology Local Economies: The Cases of Oxfordshire and CambridgeshireRupert Waters and Helen Lawton-Smith12. University Colleges’ Effect on Economic Growth in Swedish Middle-Sized MunicipalitiesTobias Arvemo and Urban GråsjöIndex