Knowledge Competitiveness: The Global Evolution of Economic Growth »

Focusing on the dynamics of the knowledge economy, this volume provides an overview of the knowledge creation capabilities of economies, an examination of their growth performance and a detailed analysis of how the creation and connection of knowledge is becoming the key means of growing productivity.

Huggins and Izushi introduce the concepts of network capital and knowledge communities to explain and understand how knowledge is connected and transferred across firms, organizations and economies, whilst taking issue with accepted concepts of business clusters, social capital and endogenous growth theory. This book demonstrates how the knowledge economy has fundamentally shifted the way in which the values of both firms and economies are measured and points to the way in which the knowledge race has become global due to increasing parts of the developing world being integrated with the developed world through international trade and investment.

This book will interest students and researchers engaged with the knowledge economy, management and economic geography, as well as managers and public policy makers interested in competitiveness and economic development.

List of illustrations     viii
Preface     x
Introduction     1
The origin and reality of the knowledge-based economy     11
Knowledge-based capacity of best-performing regions     33
Networks and clusters     52
Knowledge clusters and their evolution     67
Nurturing and attracting talent     98
Managing network capital and innovation     122
But what about the money? Financing and commercializing knowledge     135
Conclusion     152
Appendices     160
Notes     163
Bibliography     188
Index     215