This chapter intends to demonstrate that the Stockholm region is the key centre for knowledge development, innovations … and intellectual creativity in Sweden. The region is an attractor for individuals with ambitions and talents in political … tasks associated with a job. Moreover, the knowledge intensity of an ur-ban region can be related to the absorption capacity …

questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different … possible different attitudes and patterns of innovation that we control for, such as regional preconditions for knowledge and …

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

Regional knowledge spaces are heterogeneous, and the structure of these knowledge spaces can play a significant role in …

Each region can be considered to be an individual regional innovation system. It is possible to distinguish various … and fragmentation, defines three types of imperfect regional innovation systems. The metropolitan regions are one of these … types. These regions can be characterized by above-average research, innovation and patent activity and they are considered …

majority of existing New Economic Geography models ignores the interdependence between spatial concentration, knowledge … Geography Growth models in the context of the existing geography of innovation literature. The first part of the paper … contributes with a classification of first- and second-nature causes of agglomeration and clustering. This part will also …

proximity for knowledge generation and innovation is highlighted and instead it is stressed that relational, cognitive … with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to … understand the current changes of the global and their implications for knowledge generation and innovation. Treating knowledge …

We investigate the effects of job-specific knowledge for individual labor earnings of workers in the German economy …. The results indicate a positive effect for earnings stemming in particular from high-knowledge in the areas of sales and … concentrated in just a few places whereas workers with high-knowledge in law and government and administration and management are …

This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …

Following the development of knowledge economies, there has been a rapid expansion of economic analysis of knowledge …, both in the context of technological knowledge in particular and the decision theory in general. This paper surveys this … of knowledge related questions in terms of applicability and alternative approaches has led to the fragmentation of …