The book gives a good overview, an extensive and well-organized picture, of previous
regional economic studies and analyzes them from the point of view of knowledge-based …

This work is a new, valuable reference and tool for scholars, students, practitioners and
policymakers interested in knowledge, innovation, regional growth and competitiveness …

I Setting the scene: the cluster debate Having questioned some of the assumptions in the
literature on innovation systems in territorial contexts in my first report (Bathelt, 2003), this …

During the last decade or so, the geography of economic activities has resurged as one of
the key issues in the research agendas of scholars from quite diverse economic fields …

Abstract A sheim BT, L awton S mith H. and O ughton C. Regional innovation systems:
theory, empirics and policy, Regional Studies. Interest in regional innovation systems has …

The geographical concentration of related manufacturing and service firms is as old as
economic development, but it has drawn renewed attention in the last two decades in the …

1.1 Clusters and Innovation: The Main Conceptual Traditions During the past decade or so,
the geography of economic activities and the analysis of clusters have resurged as key …

Empirical evidence about cluster building, the emphasis of new growth theory on innovation,
the recent interest in economic geography and the high pressure on politicians to establish …

This paper presents a systematic account of the idea and content of regional innovation
systems following discoveries made by regional scientists, economic geographers and …

REGIONAL KNOWLEDGE CAPABILITIES AND OPEN INNOVATION 81 and the interested
reader is referred there for details. Reflecting recent theorization of regional innovation …