Platforms of Innovation

Dynamics of New Industrial Knowledge Flows

Edited by Philip Cooke, formerly Centre for Advanced Studies, Cardiff University, Wales, Carla De Laurentis, University of the West of England, Stewart MacNeill, Visiting Professor, Centre for Business in Society Coventry University and Chris Collinge, Birmingham University Business School, England, UK

This ground-breaking book offers a coherent theoretical analysis of contemporary industrial knowledge flow dynamics. Furthermore, it advances wide-ranging and varied empirical findings from international comparative research which demonstrate that knowledge cross-pollination, often from industrially unrelated business sectors, is now commonplace in the economics of innovation. This, the authors argue, represents the rise of an externalized ‘matrix’ of knowledge flow dynamics among firms and industries. The book also examines related economic governance research that reveals the catalytic role that leading innovation policy agencies play in animating knowledge flow dynamics, particularly at the regional level. The chapters address various sectors including food and drink, biotechnology, ICT, new media, the automotive industry and tourism.

高利息的fo的这本书r scholars, practitioners and policy-makers interested in innovation, knowledge flows and respective policies. A number of well-known authors investigate drivers of innovation, the dynamics of networks, and the role of platforms in both high- and low-tech sectors applying a framework of knowledge capability, knowledge phases and “worlds of production” amongst others. Investigated sectors include food and drink, tourism, the automotive industry, ICT, the media, KIBS, and biotechnology. Examples of private and public policy platforms illustrate the theme.’
– Franz Tödtling, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria