"The main purpose of the book is to discuss new trends in the dynamic geography of innovation and argue that in an era of increasing globalization, two trends seem quite dominant: rigid territorial models of innovation, and localized configurations of innovative activities. The book brings together scholars who are working on these topics. Rather than focusing on established concepts and theories, the book aims to question narrow explanations, rigid territorializations, and simplistic policy frameworks; it provides evidence that innovation, while not exclusively dependent on regional contexts, can be influenced by place-specific attributes. The study of innovation encompasses an increasingly wide and rich field of conceptual and empirical studies and debates, which span across disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences. This book identifies the key debates, new streams of inquiry and progress in research related to the transfer, circulation and generation of knowledge in a spatial perspective. The book is organized into three subheadings: place-specific aspects of specialization and diversity; evolutionary spatio-sectoral dynamics; and bridging the local and the global divide. It is the aggregate of all of these contributions that offers an exclusiveinsight into the dynamic geographies of knowledge creation, diffusion and innovation, well beyond the traditional territorial approach. This volume contains new empirical and conceptual work by an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars from areas such as economic geography, innovation studies, and political science"--
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Introduction
1. Territorial and Relational Dynamics in Knowledge
Creation Diffusion and Innovation: An Introduction Harald Bathelt, Maryann P.
Feldman and Dieter F. Kogler Part 1: Agglomeration Aspects of
Specialization and Diversity
2. Where do They Come From, and to Whom do they
Flow? W. Mark Brown and David L. Rigby
3. Local Diversity and Creative
Economic Activity in Canadian City-Regions Greg Spencer
4. Technological
Relatedness and Regional Branching Ron Boschma and Koen Frenken
5. Evolution
of the Geographical Concentration Pattern of the Danish IT Sector Christian
R. Østergaard and Bent Dalum Part 2: Beyond Territory Evoutionary
Spatio-Sectoral Dynamics
6. The Emerging Industry Puzzle: Optics Unplugged
Maryann P. Feldman and Iryna Lendel
7. Food Geography and the Organic Empire
Modern Quests for Cultural-Creative Related Theory Phil Cooke
8. Beyond
Spillovers Interrogating Innovation and Creativity in the Peripheries
Andrey N. Petrov
9. The BioValley Knowledge Dyanmics in a TNC headquarter
location Bernhard Fuhrer and Paul Messerli Part 3: Making Connections -
Bridging the Local and the Global
10. Islands of Expertise Global Knowledge
Transfer in a Technology Service Firm Johannes Glückler
11. The Changing and
Diverse Roles of RIS in the Globalizing Knowledge Economy: A Theoretical
Re-Examination with Illustrations from the Nordic Countries Bjørn Asheim,
Arne Isaksen, Jerker Moodysson, Markku Sotarauta
12. Globaal Buzz at
International Trade Fairs: A Relational Perspective Nina Schuldt and Harald
Bathelt
13. Dyanic Geographies of Knowledge Creation, Diffusion and
Innovation: Present and Future Diections Dieter F. Kogler, Harald Bathelt and
Maryann P. Feldman
Harald Bathelt is Professor and Canada Research Chair in "Innovation and Governance" at the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Maryann Feldman is the S.K. Heninger Distinguished Chair in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.
Dieter F. Kogler is Lecturer in Economic Geography at the School of Geography, Planning, and Environment Policy, University College Dublin, Ireland.
