Modeling the spatial aspect of growth has finally become an important subject of economics as exemplified by the increasing popularity of the new economic geography. However, new economic geography models have still not been able to develop a consistent approach to integrate innovation, space...

This book represents the first study in the literature that provides a systematic, US-wide analysis of local university-high technology connections at the lowest possible level of spatial aggregation. Its contributions are twofold: it focuses on the regional aspects of the interaction between...

Using techniques of data collection and mapping as overlays to Google Maps – on the basis of patent information available online at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – we point at two major and interconnected challenges that policy-makers face in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)...