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Local and Global Geographies of Innovation: Structures, Processes, and Geographical Contexts from a Firm Perspective
Author(s) -
Rusten Grete,
Overå Ragnhild
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
growth and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.657
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1468-2257
pISSN - 0017-4815
DOI - 10.1111/grow.12051
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , position (finance) , business , production (economics) , economic geography , knowledge management , knowledge production , regional science , marketing , industrial organization , sociology , economics , computer science , artificial intelligence , finance , macroeconomics
This paper introduces a special issue addressing the relationship between innovations and geographical contexts. The content, role, and sourcing of knowledge and how this relates to production systems and particular innovation projects is addressed. It includes a discussion about how firm strategies and organizational arrangements such as sourcing strategies, brokering arrangements, and project bundling effects the position of clusters as a knowledge source. Part of this discussion refers to the content of the three papers that follows.