Knowledge and the Economy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Meusburger, Peter. (Editor), Gl<U+00fc>ckler, Johannes. (Editor), Meskioui, Martina. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Knowledge and Space, Klaus Tschira Symposia, 5
• Subjects: Geography.; Economics.; Industrial organization (Economic theory).; Economic Geography.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Industrial Organization.; Economics/Management Science, general.; Communication Studies.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6131-5

The broad spectrum of topics surrounding what is termed the <U+0018>knowledge economy<U+0019> has attracted increasing attention from the scientific community in recent years. The nature of knowledge-intensive industries, the spatiality of knowledge, the role of proximity and distance in...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Knowledge Creation and the Geography of the Economy
• Introduction: Knowledge and the Geography of the Economy: Johannes Gl<U+00fc>ckler, Peter Meusburger, and Martina El Meskioui
• Relations between Knowledge and Economic Development: Some Methodological Considerations: Peter Meusburger
• A Microeconomic Approach to the Dynamics of Knowledge Creation: Patrick Cohendet, Jean-Alain Hřaud, and Patrick Llerena
• Knowledge Creation and the Geographies of Local, Global, and Virtual Buzz: Harald Bathelt and Philip Turi
• Creativity: Who, How, Where?: Edward J. Malecki
• The Problem of Mobilizing Expertise at a Distance: Johannes Gl<U+00fc>ckler
• Part II: Knowledge and Economic Development: Knowledge, Capabilities, and the Poverty Trap: The Complex Interplay between Technological, Social, and Geographical Factors: Jan Fagerberg and Martin Srholec
• Economics, Geography, and Knowing <U+001c>Development : Eric Sheppard
• Knowing Mycellf": Personalized Medicine and the Economization of Prospective Knowledge about Bodily Fate: Bronwyn Parry
• KnowledgeScapes: A New Conceptual Approach and Selected Empirical Findings from Research on Knowledge Milieus and Knowledge Networks: Ulf Matthiesen
• Part III Knowledge and Geographical Clusters
• Organizational Legacy and the Internal Dynamics of Clusters: The U.S. Human Biotherapeutics Industry, 1976<U+0013>2002: Maryann Feldman and Elaine Romanelli
• Knowledge and Space in Economic History: Innovations in the German Empire, 1877<U+0013>1918: Jochen Streb and Nicole Waidlein
• Cluster Policy: A Guide to the State of the Debate: Christian Ketels: Abstracts of the Contributions
• The Klaus Tschira Foundation
• Index.