Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Geography and Innovation (Economic Geography Series) - Hardcover

Freel, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075467889X ISBN 13: 9780754678892

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of research on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation. This book brings together current thinking on this subject from geographic and territorial perspectives. Researchers from across Europe and North America present contributions from a wide range of disciplinary approaches including management studies, innovation studies and geography. They explore areas such as innovation related cooperation between KIBS firms and their industrial partners, how KIBS firms mediate business knowledge and the impact that KIBS make in local, regional and international contexts. The book offers a timely exploration of the role played by the geographic and institutional environment in the processes that link KIBS, innovation and territory across different contexts.

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About the Author

David Doloreux and Mark Freel are both Associate Professor in the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, Canada and Richard Shearmur is Professeur-chercheur at INRS - Université du Québec, Canada

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075467889X
• ISBN 13: 9780754678892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Doloreux David