Regional Resources, Global Knowledge Networks, and Innovation Policy: Special Issue in Honour of Bjorn Asheim

摘要

Studies on knowledge bases, learning, innovation and innovation systems in a territorial context are important fields of research within economic geography. Such studies also provide important inputs to policy-makers who are focusing on the promotion of national, regional and local competitiveness, innovation and growth. Bjorn Asheim is a distinguished scholar in economic geography who, during the last two decades, has published extensively in international journals on these topics. His field of research ranges from studies on industrial districts in the 1980s to recent publications on regional innovation systems and the construction of regional advantages which bring together the analytical dimensions of industrial knowledge bases and institutional framework of varieties of capitalism. Innovation, innovation policy and regional economic growth and development are also topics of this special issue published in honour of Bjorn Asheim for his 60th birthday on 8 September 2008.