Abstract Since the Industrial Revolution the cyclical processes of rise and fall of regional
economies have been accelerating. Many of the specific problems of the falling part of …

Complementing existing approaches on national innovation systems (NISs) and regional
innovation systems (RISs), the proposed spatial innovation systems (SISs) approach …

By the late 1990s, learning became a key notion in explaining successful regional economic
development outcomes. One of the key (implicit or explicit) assumptions in these …

Economic geography, a field that, due to its very nature combines ideas geographical and
ideas economistic, seems to be living with a tension. On the one hand, it draws on traditions …

We are now living through a period of knowledge capitalism in which, as Manuel Castells
puts it,'the action of knowledge upon knowledge is the main source of productivity'. In the …

In recent research and literature in which regional development concepts and regional
innovation policy have been addressed, a strong interest in the role of knowledge and …

Tampere, the second largest city-region in Finland, has been accustomed to continuous
change throughout its history. First, it developed from a small village into Finland's leading …

In order for an urban region to learn and develop, it is necessary for its development network
to learn. In this article, Ikujiro Nonaka's learning model, which emphasizes the significance …

This superb new book develops a knowledge-based theory of innovation, marrying three
streams of literature: innovation, inter-firm collaboration and networks, and learning regions …

Recently the concept of learning has become very fashionable among academics from
different economic disciplines, as they write about'learning companies','learning …