Research Catalog

Title

Regional economies as knowledge laboratories / edited by Philip Cooke and Andrea Piccaluga.

Publication

Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Cooke, Philip (Philip N.)
• Piccaluga, Andrea, 1964-

Description

xxx, 241 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"Today, the study of regions is central to academic analysis and policy deliberation on how to respond to the rise of the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis - utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and concepts such as knowledge life cycles, experimental knowledge creation, and knowledge ethics - are leading to a perception that regional economies increasingly resemble knowledge laboratories." "Aiming to contribute to the better understanding of theories and practices associated with knowledge regions, this book will appeal to a wide-ranging audience, including regional and industrial economists, innovation scientists, academics and practitioners with an interest in knowledge and management organisation, regional scientists, economic geographers, and economic sociologists."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Regional economics
• Intellectual capital
• Informationswirtschaft
• Regionalwirtschaft
• Regionale economie
• Kennismaatschappij

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : the scale question in knowledge creation, capture and commercialization / Philip Cooke -- Strategic adaptation to the knowledge economy in less favoured regions : a South Ostrobothnian University network as a case in point / Markku Sotarauta and Kati-Jasmin Kosonen -- Higher education and high intellectual unemployment : does education matter? An interpretation and some critical perspectives / Ernesto Tavoletti -- The geography of research collaboration : theoretical considerations and stylized facts in biotechnology in Europe and the United States / Koen Frenken and Frank G. van Oort -- Knowledge Intensive Business Services and regional development : consultancy in city regions in Norway / Heidi Wiig Aslesen -- The cluster as a nexus of knowledge creation / Mark Lorenzen and Peter Maskell -- Knowledge life cycles inside local economic systems / Lucio Poma and Silvia Sacchetti -- High-tech industry clustering rationales : the case of German biotechnology / Kerstin Wolter -- Industry-science relationships as enhancing regional knowledge economices : a comparative perspective from Japan and the UK / Fumi Kitagawa -- Placing Ireland's transition to a knowledge economy within a global context / Mark C. White and Seamus Grimes -- The spatial dimension of inter-firm learning : case study and conceptualization / Roel Rutten and Frans Boekema -- Knowledge, values and territory : a case study / Goio Etxebarria and Mikel Gómez Uranga -- The 'knowledge economy' : a critical view / Martin Sokol -- Conclusions : regional economies as knowledge laboratories : theories, fashions and future steps / Andrea Piccaluga.

ISBN

• 1843768216
• 9781843768210

LCCN

2005276701

OCLC

• ocm56805061
• 56805061
• SCSB-8937647

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library