The legal, economic, and policy environmentsthat comprise the system of innovation affect university knowledge productionand, consequently, the rate of technological change. These influences onknowledge transfer are identified and discussed. To understand the role of universities in creating and...

This chapter focuses on the geographic dimensions of knowledge spillovers. The starting point comes from the economics of innovation and technological change. This tradition focused on the innovation production function however it was aspatial or insensitive to issues involving location and...

The tendency for innovative industry to clusterspatially has been documented by scholarship; yet, questions are still raisedabout the role of government policy in cluster formation andsustainability. The authors focus on the emergence of the U.S. Capitolregion as an important biotech cluster in...