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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book offers a coherent theoretical analysis of contemporary industrial knowledge flow dynamics. Furthermore, it advances wide-ranging and varied empirical findings from international comparative research which demonstrate that knowledge cross-pollination, often from industrially unrelated business sectors, is now commonplace in the economics of innovation. This, the authors argue, represents the rise of an externalized ‘matrix’ of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and industries. The book also examines related economic governance research that reveals the catalytic role that leading innovation policy agencies play in animating knowledge flow dynamics, particularly at the regional level. The chapters address various sectors including food and drink, biotechnology, ICT, new media, the automotive industry and tourism.
This insightful book will appeal to policy-makers, researchers and students with an interest in regional innovation, industrial economics and knowledge.
Trade Review'This is a book of high interest for scholars, practitioners and policy-makers interested in innovation, knowledge flows and respective policies. A number of well-known authors investigate drivers of innovation, the dynamics of networks, and the role of platforms in both high- and low-tech sectors applying a framework of knowledge capability, knowledge phases and “worlds of production” amongst others. Investigated sectors include food and drink, tourism, the automotive industry, ICT, the media, KIBS, and biotechnology. Examples of private and public policy platforms illustrate the theme.’ -- Franz Tödtling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Trends and Drivers of the Knowledge Economy Philip Cooke and Carla De Laurentis 2. The Rationale for Eurodite and an Introduction to the Sector Studies Stewart MacNeill and Chris Collinge 3. Production–Consumption Models and Knowledge Dynamics in the Food and Drinks Sector Jesper Manniche 4. Comparative Analysis of Selected European Biotechnology Platforms Philip Cooke, Carla De Laurentis, Robert Kaiser and Michael Liecke 5. Knowledge Phases, Cognitive and Relational Distance in ICT Alliance Networks Olivier Brossard and Jérôme Vicente 6. Distributed Knowledge and Creativity in the European New Media Sector Adreene Staines and Chris Collinge 7. Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) Simone Strambach 8. Knowledge Processes and Networks in the Automotive Sector Ulrich Jürgens, Antje Blöcker and Stewart MacNeill 9. Tourism Knowledge Dynamics Henrik Halkier 10. Analysis and Summaries from the Seven Sector Chapters Philip Cooke and Carla De Laurentis 11. Platforms of Innovation: Some Examples Philip Cooke and Carla De Laurentis 12. The Matrix: Evolving Policies for Platform Knowledge Flows Philip Cooke and Carla De Laurentis References Index
