This paper re-examines the empirical evidence on the degree of spatial spillover between
university research and high technology innovations. The familiar Griliches–Jaffe knowledge …

This book offers a geographic dimension to the study of innovation and product
commercialization. Building on the literature in economics and geography, this book …

Recent research suggests that, due to organizational and relational constraints, firms are
limited contextually—both geographically and technologically—in their search for new …

What is innovation and what determines its development in manufacturing firms? The
literature on the topic has evolved exponentially during the last decades. However, the …

This chapter focuses on the geographic dimensions of knowledge spillovers. The starting
point comes from the economics of innovation and technological change. This tradition …

Despite the dramatic increase in total foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing
countries in the last few years, the bulk of the inflows has been directed to only a limited …

This book explores the relationship between tourism and development and establishes a
conceptual link between the interconnected disciplines of tourism studies and development …

Telecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the
relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and …