Innovation, Networks and Localities

- Preface
1 Innovation, Networks and Localities: An Introduction Manfred M. Fischer and Luis Suarez-Villa

PART A: KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORKS
2 The Innovation Process and Network Activities of Manufacturing Firms Manfred M. Fischer
3 Are Innovation Networks Bounded by Proximity? Elsie L. Echeverri-Carroll and William Brennan
4 Globalisation and Territorial Production Systems Denis Maillat and Nicolas Grosjean
5 Clustering, Innovations and Trust: The Essentials of a Clustering Strategy for Scotland Mike Danson and Geoff Whittam
6 Interfirm Co-Operation and Learning within SME-Networks Michael Steiner and Christian Hartmann

PART B: LOCATION OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED ACTIVITIES AND SPATIAL PATTERNS OF INNOVATION
7 The Location of Knowledge-Based Activities: The Case of Computer Software Rena Sivitanidou
8 Localised Knowledge Spillovers and Trade Competitiveness: The Case of Italy Stefano Breschi and Daniela Palma
9 Innovation and Performance of SMEs in Italy: The Relevance of Spatial Aspects Roberto Camagni and Roberta Capello
10 Time-space Patterns of US Innovation - Stability or Change? Attila Varga
11 Where are the Worlds Top 100 I.T. Firms and Why? R.D. Norton

PART C: INNOVATIVE INFRASTRUCTURES, TECHNOLOGY POLICIES AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
12 The Adoption of New Communications Technologies by Firms in Rural Areas: A Scottish Case Study David Newlands and Melanie Ward
13 Innovative Forms of Regional Structural Policy in Europe: The Role of Dominant Concepts and Knowledge Flows Arnoud Lagendijk
14 Regional Technological Distance and Catching Up Maurice J. Oude Wansink and Hans Maks
15 Concluding Remarks Manfred M. Fischer, Luis Suarez-Villa, Michael Steiner Subject Index Author Index List of Contributors.

Manfred M. Fischer (born in 1947, Nuremberg, Germany) graduated in geography and mathematics from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen (Germany). He holds a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) on urban modelling from the same university (1975), and a habilitation degree in human geography from the University of Vienna (1982). Since 1988 he is professor in economic geography and GIScience at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
For more than thirty years he has consistently made significant contributions to regional science and GIScience in general, and spatial analysis, GeoComputation and spatial econometrics in particular. He has published widely, both books and articles in more than 30 distinct academic journals.