Nowadays it is quite evident that knowledge-based society necessarily involves the revaluation of human and intangible …

sources of knowledge (ISK) as innovation performance drivers. Thus, context-led views such as the innovative milieux approach …, innovation systems literature and the knowledge spillover view have tended to focus on diverse, informal and location …-facilitated sources of knowledge. Meanwhile, firm-led perspectives such as the innovator networks approach and the open innovation model …

In this paper I assess the existence, and the magnitude, of technological externalities in the form of creativity … estimate a knowledge production function through a zero-inflated beta regression model and a generalized Tobit model. From …-based, indicators of creativity at the NUTS3 level, while controlling for firm localization, size and industry. I also control for …

Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation … and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe …

and so on. Further the article seeks to analyze the role of knowledge as a deciding force in the formation of such … identities as second premise of the paper is that it is knowledge of different kinds ‘local’ and ‘global’; ‘tacit’ and ‘explicit … cultural hegemony through creation of so-called ‘knowledge society’ and ‘knowledge economy’. It is in this context that the …

The papers discusses the concept of ‘traditional knowledge’: its definition, economic significance and role in shaping … regional development trajectories. After outlining a conceptual framework for the analysis of traditional knowledge, the paper … examines the changing position of traditional knowledge in two Italian regions that have followed since the 1950s quite …

. According to Florida, a main factor in explaining creativity driven growth is the locational choice of creative people. This …

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 …