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Creating Knowledge over Distance shows that economic knowledge creation fundamentally depends on, benefits from, and is structured by temporary geographical proximity - that is, by economic actors meeting in person or interacting in a co-present context to discuss business opportunities, problems and solutions are face to face.
List of contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Conceptualizing Knowledge Creation Over Distance
- 1: Making Global Connections: Combining Temporary and Permanent Spatial Settings
- 2: Configurations of Knowledge Creation over Distance
- Part II. Knowledge Creation in International Community Gatherings
- 3: International Trade Fairs
- 4: Business Conferences and Conventions
- Part III. Knowledge Creation Through Mobile Business Practices
- 5: Intra-firm Business Coordination
- 6: Producer-User Interaction and Inter-firm Projects
- 7: Corporate Expansion and Inter-firm Negotiations
- Part IV. Knowledge Creation in Transnational Networks
- 8: Transnational Corporate Networks
- 9: Transnational Migrant Firms and Entrepreneurs
- Part V. Knowledge Creation in Virtual and Temporary Proximity
- 10: Practices of Virtual Economic Interaction
- 11: Synthesis: Towards Integrated Global Geographies of Knowledge Creation
- References
- Index
About the author
Harald Bathelt is Professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Geography & Planning and Zijiang Visiting Chair at East China Normal University in Shanghai. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of industrial clustering, knowledge generation and innovation over distance, and regional impacts of national/international investment activity. He has published many conceptual and empirical articles in leading academic journals. From 2012 to 2020, he was Editor of the
Journal of Economic Geography and is current Editor of
ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography.
Sebastian Henn is Professor of Economic Geography at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. His research and teaching focuses on knowledge-based regional development, peripheries and polarisation, and regional health services research. He is (co-)editor of book series at Springer and Palgrave and has edited several anthologies with renowned international publishers. He also serves as Editor of
ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography.
