There is widespread consensus in academic and policy debates that knowledge and
innovation are eminently important for securing competitiveness, dynamic growth and …

The past two decades have witnessed an ever-growing scholarly interest in regional
clusters. The focus of research has mainly been on exploring why clusters exist and what …

This paper studies the effects of skilled migration on innovation–proxied by patent citations-
in European industries between 1994 and 2005, using the French and the UK Labour Force …

The aim of this article is to examine conceptually and empirically how innovative firms
combine knowledge (1) provided by different sources,(2) accessed at different spatial scales …

Creative tourism is a growing field of inquiry in tourism studies and engages creative
industry, creative city and urban regeneration debates. This research identifies creative …

The knowledge base concept in the past was often applied in its “pure form”, ie it was
assumed that there are dominant knowledge bases in particular sectors and firms shaping …

The literature on regional innovation systems emphasizes the role of the region as locus for
interactive learning and knowledge exchange, stressing the importance of (geographical) …

The article is devoted to the increasing role of tourism in the world economy. The dynamics
of international tourism indicators is investigated. The main global innovations in the tourism …

This chapter aims to sketch a short history of the differentiated knowledge base (DKB)
literature that has been initiated and pioneered by Bjorn Asheim. In its formative years, the …

The topic of new regional industrial path development has recently received increasing
attention in economic geography. The core idea is that actors in a specific region mobilize …