Knowledge Matters A Networks and Clusters Perspective from the US, Europe and Asia

The focus of this book is on profiling, analysing, benchmarking, and modeling in socio-technical terms, ways and means that creativity, invention and innovation are manifested and flourish in select American, European, and Asian knowledge-based innovation networks and knowledge clusters. This book will present a number of conceptual and emperical studies from the USA, Europe and Asia, that contribute to a better understanding of the role of knowledge in the theory and practice of technological entrepreneurship in the context of socio-technical networks, architecture design, form and function and from other diverse theoretical perspectives.

ELIAS G.CARAYANNIS is Professor of Management Science, George Washington University. PIERO FORMICA has over 30 years of experience in the fields of international economics and the economics of innovation. He is Marie Curie Professor of Knowledge Economy and Entrepreneurship, at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, the Univeristy of Tartu, Estonia