Knowledge & Innovation in Space

Charlie Karlsson (), Börje Johansson and Roger R. Stough ()
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Roger R. Stough: George Mason University, Postal: 4400 University Drive, MS 6D5 , Fairfax, Virginia 22030

No 305, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: The purpose of this working paper is to provide a short overview of actual topics in contemporary research concerned with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to understand the current changes of the global and their implications for knowledge generation and innovation. Treating knowledge as a key resource for innovation shifts the focus from the innovation itself to the process of knowledge generation, transformation and diffusion, i.e. to knowledge dynamics. This necessitates integrating spatial aspects since knowledge generation and as a result, innovation exhibits a strong geographical clustering, which implies that innovation ability and innovation resources also are strongly clustered geographically in particular to urban regions. The role of interaction and proximity for knowledge generation and innovation is highlighted and instead it is stressed that relational, cognitive, organizational, social and institutional proximities are not substitutes or complements to spatial proximity but that they are all functions of the prevailing spatial proximity. Another important factor for interaction is social capital, which by fostering trust makes information and knowledge to diffuse faster.

Keywords: Knowledge; innovation; proximity; knowledge economy; knowledge dynamics; knowledge networks; innovation ability; innovation resources; globalization; agglomeration; face-to-face interaction; urban regions; social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O32 O33 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2013-04-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-knm, nep-sbm, nep-soc and nep-ure
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