Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Finance, Institutions, and Industrial Change: Spatial Perspectives -- 2 Financial Markets and Industrial Change -- 3 Sovereign Risk Analysis: A Qualitative Approach -- 4 Corporate Raiders: The Case...

This wide-ranging Handbook is the first major compilation of the theoretical and empirical research that is forging the new and exciting paradigm of evolutionary economic geography.

The competitiveness of firms and regions is increasingly dependent on their capabilities to organise knowledge processes that unfold between different knowledge providers. In this article it is argued that this knowledge management in networks is a cognitive process that uses different...