Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (Ashgate Economic Geography)

Over the last decade or so has seen an increasing amount of research on knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation and this book brings together current thinking on this subject from a geographic or territorial perspective. Researchers from across Europe and North America present contributions from a variety of disciplinary approaches including management studies, innovation studies and geography. They explore areas such as innovation related cooperation between KIBS firms and their industrial partners, how KIBS firms mediate business knowledge and the impact that KIBS make in local, regional and international contexts. Taken as a whole, the book explores the part played by the geographic and institutional environment in the processes that link KIBS, innovation and territory across different contexts.