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Informationen zum Autor Bjørn T. Asheim is Professor and chair in economic geography at the Department of Human Geography! and Deputy Director at CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation! Research and Competence in the Learning Economy)! at Lund University! Lund! Sweden. He is an internationally well-known researcher within economic geography and regional innovation studies.Olof Ejermo is Associate professor in Innovation Economics at CIRCLE! Lund University! Sweden. In his research he focuses mainly on assessing the entrepreneurial and innovative capacity of the Swedish economy. He has published several articles in internationally renowned journals and edited books.Annika Rickne is Reader and Associate Professor at CIRCLE! Lund University and currently active at Innovation and Entrepreneurship! Gothenburg University. Her broad interest is economic growth initiated by new scientific or technological knowledge! creating opportunities that reshape existing knowledge fields and industries or giving rise to new ones. Zusammenfassung The contributions of this book address relevant contemporary issues regarding the spatial structure of the service economy, the role of academia, and renewal of industries. They provide valuable information, useful to policy-makers, planners and academics. This book was published as a special issue of Industry & Innovation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: When is Regional "Beautiful"? Implications for Knowledge Flows!Entrepreneurship and Innovation Bjørn T. Asheim! Olof Ejermo & Annika Rickne2. Do Regional and Non-regional Knowledge Flows Differ? An Empirical Study on Clustered Firms in the Dutch Life Sciences and Computing Services Industry Anet Weterings & Roderik Ponds3. Shaken! Not Stirred: The Re-combinatorial Capacity of High-Tech Regions. Redeployment of Resources Released from the Downsizing of a Lead Pharmaceutical FirmHenrich Dahlgren & Finn Valentin4. Investing in Localized Relationships with Universities: What are the Benefits for R&D Subsidiaries of Multinational Enterprises? Anders Broström! Maureen McKelvey & Christian Sandström5. Place! Space and Distance: Towards a Geography of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Innovation Richard Shearmur & David Doloreux6. Location Attributes and Start-ups in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Martin Andersson & Karin Hellerstedt7. Promoting Regional Innovation Systems in a Global Context Cali Nuur! Linda Gustavsson & Staffan Laestadius ...
