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 geography of innovation describes the importance of proximity and location to innovative activity. As part of what has been termed the new economic geography, this area of research is less than 20 years old, and is now developed sufficiently so that the discussion can be organized around...