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Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Regional Competitiveness book cover

1st Edition

Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Regional Competitiveness

Edited By João J. M. Ferreira, Mário L. Raposo, Cristina I. Fernandes, Marcus Dejardin Copyright 2016
350 Pages
by Routledge

350 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Research interest in the service sector has boomed in recent years as deindustrialisation became entrenched. Instead of being regarded as merely supplementary to traditional industry and manufacturing, services have generated progressively rising levels of growth in developed economies while at the same time coming to be recognised as major drivers of innovation. Among the factors which have... Read more

Introduction: Knowledge intensive business services and regional competitiveness: an overview João J. Ferreira, Mário Raposo, Cristina Fernandes and Marcus Dejardin Part I KIBS and industrial dynamics 1. Knowledge intensive business services research: a bibliometric study of leading international journals (1994-2014) Alexandra Braga and Carla Marques 2. KIBS and the dynamics of industrial clusters: a complex adaptive systems approach Benoit Desmarchelier, Faridadh Djellal and Faiz Gallouj 3. Bad News travels fast: The role of informal networks for SME-KIBS cooperation Daniel Feser and Till Proeger Part II KIBS and their Context 4. Does the geographic distribution of knowledge intensive business services affect the use of services for innovation? Empirical evidence from Quebec KIBS manufacturers David Doloreux and Richard Shearmur 5. Institutions and spin-offs: determining factors for establishment and early market entry success of innovation based spin-offs from KIBS-firms Kjersti Vikse Meland and Tatiana A. Iakovleva 6. Survival of knowledge intensive business service firms: the role of agglomeration externalities Sam Tavassoli and Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol Part III KIBS and their Contribution to regional competitiveness and economic development 7. Entrepreneurship and KIBS: Key factors in the growth of territories Joaquín Alcazar, Norat Roig-Tierno, Alicia Mas-Tur and Belén Ribeiro-Navarrete 8. Contribution of knowledge intensive activities to regional competitiveness: production function approach Anna-Leena Asikainen and Giovanni Mangiarotti 9. KIBS as a factor in meetings industry competitiveness creation in Krakow, Poland Krzysztof Borodako, Jadwiga Berbeka and Michał Rudnicki 10. Interactive relationships, development effects and knowledge Intermediaries among KIBS firms and their clients: a comparison of the Hsinchu and Tainan regions,Taiwan Tai-Shan Hu, Chien-Yu

Biography

João J. M. Ferreira is Associate Professor in Management at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal.



Mário L. Raposo is Professor of Business and Economics, University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal.



Cristina I. Fernandes is a Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal.



Marcus Dejardin is Professor of Economics at the University of Namur, Belgium.

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