Innovation Networks And Knowledge Spillovers

Download or read book Innovation, Networks, and Knowledge Spillovers written by Manfred M Fischer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the topic of innovation in three sections, first demonstrating that processes of innovation and technological change are spatially differentiated, second examining the increasing importance of knowledge creation and diffusion, and third raising key issues related to the systems of innovation approach as a conceptual framwork for regional innovation analysis. Includes enlightening conceptual and empirical work on the issue of how knowledge spills over locally.