Knowledge Matters: A Networks and Clusters Perspective from the US, Europe and Asia
Palgrave Macmillan | July-8-2008 | ISBN: 1403998728 | 288 pages | PDF | 1.5MB
It has been previously said that in the knowledge economy the marketplace is not divided into towns and regions but into affinity groups that emerge from a high propensity to sociability. In a truly open global economy, no one country is able to dominate others in isolation: knowledge-driven economies and knowledge-based societies can materialize only through the 'chemistry' of community. The focus of this book is on profiling, in socio-technical terms, ways and means that creativity, invention and innovation are manifested and flourish in select American, European, and Asian knowledge-based innovation networks and knowledge clusters.