Overview
Provides fresh insights on the triad of knowledge-space-innovation from a hermeneutical viewpoint
Offers a notion of milieus that reflects knowledge-generation processes on various socio-spatial scales
Six illustrative case studies examine European organisations, cities and regions as knowledge-generating milieus
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Theoretical Framework
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Front Matter
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Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This book introduces a radically spatialised approach to knowledge creation and innovation. Reflecting on an array of European urban and regional developments, it offers an updated notion of milieu as the conceptual and material space of knowledge and innovation in line with the interpretative turn in social sciences and humanities. In view of the unwillingness of mainstream economics to accommodate such a trend, the authors pursue a broadly understood hermeneutic approach that expands on the triad of knowledge-space-innovation. The book’s main findings are that space is an essential intermediary in the connection between knowledge and innovation, and that a renewed notion of milieu provides the knowledge-space-innovation triad with both an analytical basis and operational power. It also offers fresh insights into the significance and potential of the knowledge economy. A number of empirical European case studies on various scales (organisations, cities and territories) support the findings and suggest new policy directions.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Augusto Cusinato is Associate Professor of Urban & Regional Economics at the Iuav University of Venice and Director of the Research Unit “Society, Economy, Territory”. His main research interests are in urban economics, knowledge economics and informal economy. He is co-author of La genèse d’une culture locale d’entreprise au Nord-Est de l’Italie (L’Harmattan) and editor of Economia informale e istituzioni. Processi di reciproco adattamento (L’Harmattan Italia).
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is Professor of Law & Theory at the University of Westminster and Director of The Westminster International Law & Theory Centre. His research is interdisciplinary and includes phenomenology, autopoiesis, law and literature, geography, art, corporeality, environmental studies and so on. His previous edited volumes Law and the City and Law and Ecology and his monographs Absent Environments and Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society are published by Routledge.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Knowledge-creating Milieus in Europe
Book Subtitle: Firms, Cities, Territories
Editors: Augusto Cusinato, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45173-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-45172-0Published: 04 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51233-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-45173-7Published: 26 August 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLVIII, 376
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Regional and Cultural Studies, Economic Geography, R & D/Technology Policy