New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited … commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that … "knowledge filter" between new knowledge and economic knowledge and identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the …

for this is that the spatial dimension of knowledge production is still only partly understood in the empirical literature … knowledge production function analysis at an appropriate level of spatial aggregation (i.e., US metropolitan areas) that has not …