Silicon Valley has been admired and much emulated as an American version of a new industrial district based on its heavily networked, small-firm, innovative electronics sector. This industrial structure has been argued to give the region a uniquely cooperative, flexible, and dynamic structure....

In 2003, consumption of IT goods worldwide was $1.5 trillion. Asia represented twenty percent of this total. Even more telling, Asia produced about forty percent of these goods. The continued rise of Asian IT innovation will pose a challenge to the eminence of traditional IT centers, notably...

1. Introduction -- 2. Dynamics of economic spaces : a theoretical framework -- 3. Integral model of service innovation -- 4. Path dependence, regional resilience, and the evolution of the regional economy -- 5. Global megatrends and spatial economic inequality in East Asia -- 6. Interaction...