Publications

9th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

2007 | Action 288

Casting the Net Wider: Human Rights, Development and New Duty-Bearers

2007 | Action A28

Limits and Future of All-optical Networks

1994 | Action 239

Analyse Organischer mikroschadstoffe im wasser Teil1&2

1984

Knowledge Externalities, Innovation Clusters and Regional Development

2007 | Action A17

Prospective Study on Nanochemistry in Europe

1999 | Action null

Sino-EU Workshop on Fluidized Bed Combustion

1995 | Action null

Organic Micropollutants in the Aquatic Environment

1987 | Action 641

Arbuscular Mycorrhizas in Sustainable Soil-plant Systems

1997 | Action 821

9th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

2007 | Action 288
  • Pages: 290
  • Author(s): Marian Marciniak
  • ISBN/ISSN: 1-4244-0235-2

Icton 2006

Knowledge Externalities, Innovation Clusters and Regional Development

2007 | Action A17
  • Pages: 308
  • Author(s): J. SuriƱach, R. Moreno, E. VayĆ”
  • Publisher(s): Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
  • ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-84720-120-1

This book begins with a theoretical examination of regional innovation systems, agglomeration economics and knowledge spillovers, before going on to examine the same concepts within an empirical framework. Special emphasis is given to the importance of proximity in the formation of regional innovation systems. It concludes by considering innovation and human capital as determinants of regional economic growth.

The concept of knowledge spillovers is used within the book to explain a number of major economic phenomena, including the geographical clustering of inventions; the social returns to R&D that significantly exceed private returns; and the sizeable disproportions that exist between firms in terms of their R&D inputs and outputs. The authors identify that small firms are responsible for far more product innovations than large firms relative to their measurable knowledge resources. The book also stresses the importance of a catch-up mechanism that sees technological improvement as the combination of two distinct types of activity: innovation and imitation. In this way, the impact of human capital and other types of knowledge acquisition on economic growth is measured. The conclusions of the authors are invaluably oriented to policy implications.

This book will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students of regional science and innovation and knowledge, as well as policymakers.