This volume covers the topic of innovation in three sections, first demonstrating that processes of innovation and technological change are spatially differentiated, second examining the increasing importance of knowledge creation and diffusion, and third raising key issues related to the systems of innovation approach as a conceptual framwork for regional innovation analysis. Includes enlightening conceptual and empirical work on the issue of how knowledge spills over locally.
Author(s): Manfred M. Fischer
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 280
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 5
1. Introduction......Page 8
PART I: Innovation and Technological Change......Page 17
2. Innovation and Technological Change: An Austrian-British Comparison......Page 18
3. Technology, Organisation and Export-driven Research and Development in Austria's Electronics Industry......Page 38
4. Information Processing, Technological Progress, and Retail Market Dynamics......Page 77
PART II: Innovation and Networks......Page 97
5. The New Economy and Networking......Page 98
6. The Innovation Process and Network Activities of Manufacturing Firms......Page 119
7. Knowledge Interactions between Universities and Industry in Austria: Sectoral Patterns and Determinants......Page 136
PART III: Knowledge Creation, Diffusion and Spillovers......Page 168
8. Innovation, Knowledge Creation and Systems of Innovation......Page 169
9. The Role of Space in the Creation of Knowledge in Austria: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis......Page 188
10. Spatial Knowledge Spillovers and University Research: Evidence from Austria......Page 210
11. Patents, Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers in Europe......Page 232
Figures......Page 250
Tables......Page 253
D......Page 256
I......Page 257
L......Page 258
R......Page 259
U......Page 260
C......Page 261
G......Page 262
L......Page 263
O......Page 264
S......Page 265
Z......Page 266
Acknowledgements......Page 267
