Regional Economies As Knowledge Laboratories

Contents: Introduction: The Scale Question in Knowledge Creation, Capture and Commercialization 1. Strategic Adaptation to the Knowledge Economy in Less Favoured Regions: A South Ostrobothnian University Network as a Case in Point 2. Higher Education and High Intellectual Unemployment: Does Education Matter? An Interpretation and Some Critical Perspectives 3. The Geography of Research Collaboration: Theoretical Considerations and Stylized Facts in Biotechnology in Europe and the United States 4. Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Regional Development: Consultancy in City Regions in Norway 5. The Cluster as a Nexus of Knowledge Creation 6. Knowledge Life Cycles Inside Local Economic Systems 7. High-Tech Industry Clustering Rationales: The Case of German Biotechnology 8. Industry-Science Relationships as Enhancing Regional Knowledge Economies: A Comparative Perspective from Japan and the UK 9. Placing Ireland's Transition to a Knowledge Economy within a Global Context 10. The Spatial Dimension of Inter-Firm Learning: Case Study and Conceptualization 11. Knowledge, Values and Territory: A Case Study 12. The 'Knowledge Economy': A Critical View 13. Conclusions: Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories: Theories, Fashions and Future Steps Index Contributors: H.W. Aslesen, F. Boekema, P. Cooke, G. Etxebarria, K. Frenken, S. Grimes, F. Kitagawa, K.-J. Kosonen, M. Lorenzen, P. Maskell, A. Piccaluga, L. Poma, R. Rutten, S. Sacchetti, M. Sokol, M. Sotarauta, E. Tavoletti, M.G. Uranga, F.G. van Oort, M.C. White, K. Wolter.Cooke, Philip is the author of 'Regional Economies As Knowledge Laboratories', published 2005 under ISBN 9781843768210 and ISBN 1843768216.