decrease the relevance of location by creating knowledge clusters and knowledge hubs. A knowledge cluster is a local innovation …With globalisation and knowledge-based production, firms may cooperate on a global scale, outsource parts of their … knowledge seem to invalidate the theory of agglomeration and the spatial clustering of firms, going back to the classical work …

Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong … correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the … other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent discrepancies between knowledge inputs and economic performance …