This paper investigates regional sources of entrepreneurial opportunities of knowledge-intensive start-up activity …. Thereby it is investigated whether it makes a difference if the knowledge-intensive sector is a newly emerging industry … knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in East and West Germany in the 1990s. At the time of German re-unification in 1990 …

Knowledge generation is considered to be a collective process which requires mobilisation of number of knowledge agents …. There is open debate in the literature about the role of spatial proximity for the knowledge interactions. Are proximity or … distance interactions crucial for the knowledge generation? At the same time the question of the modes of knowledge governance …

This paper investigates the embeddedness of European regions in different types of inter-regional knowledge networks … dimension in regional knowledge production activities. The results reveal conspicuous differences between the knowledge networks … spillover effects of region-external factors on centrality in the co-publication network. Thus, the distinctive knowledge …

The transformation of China into a knowledge based economy is currently one of the most intensively debated research … issues in Economic Geography and Regional Science. The focus of this study is on the effects of knowledge production and … knowledge spillovers on manufacturing total factor productivity (TFP) in China - at the level of Chinese regions - through the …

. Most of the existent research seeks to assess the levels of literacy of the population, in the three dimensions - knowledge … knowledge, without neglecting the evaluation of attitudes and behavior. This study will provide useful pointers to researchers …