Quintessentially a US phenomenon, the information and knowledge economy (IKE) combines regional clusters of innovation with new and sophisticated forms of intellectual and finance capital. For those European economies struggling to adjust to global competition, the IKE is seen as the panacea. It...

In this paper, we emphasize the links between agent-centred decision-making and the role and status of the context in which decision-making takes place. Our problem is simple yet complex: how can we explain the acknowledged importance of path-dependence while allowing for agents to step away...