Global and Regional Dynamics in Knowledge Flows and Innovation
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Place specific characteristics are considered especially important in this context, however, more recently investigation into innovative capacity of places has also turned its attention to external knowledge inputs through innovation networks, and increasingly recognize the evolutionary character of the processes that lead to knowledge creation and subsequent application in the marketplace.
The chapters that comprise this book are embedded at the intersection of the dynamic processes of knowledge production and creative destruction. The first three contributions all discuss the role of global innovation networks, in the context of territorial and/or sectoral dynamics, while the following two chapters investigate the evolution of regional or metropolitan knowledge economies. The final three contributions adopt a knowledge base approach in order to provide insight into the organisation of innovation networks and spatiality of knowledge flows.
This book was published in a special issue of European Planning Studies.
About the author
Chris van Egeraat lectures economic geography at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research interest and publications focus on global production and innovation networks, multinational corporations, regional clustering and economic development. He is the Chairman of the Regional Studies Association, Irish Branch.
Dieter F. Kogler is a lecturer in Economic Geography at University College Dublin. His research focus is on the geography of innovation and evolutionary economic geography, with particular emphasis on knowledge production and diffusion, and processes related to technological change and innovation.
Phil Cooke is University Research Professor in regional economic development (1991) and founding director (1993) of the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff. He was formerly (2005-2010) also Adjunct Professor in Development Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. In 2013 he was appointed Research Professor at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development. He has Honorary Doctorates from the University of Lund, Sweden & the University of Lappeenranta, Finland.
