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 …

The paper proposes an original survey on the evolution of the concept of technological knowledge and of its production …, as well as of its operational translations in the empirical literature. We move from the former notion of knowledge … capital stock, implying a linear approach to the process of knowledge generation, and then we go through the knowledge …