Knowledge-creating Milieus in Europe Firms, Cities, Territories By: Augusto Cusinato Publisher: Springer Print ISBN: 9783642451720, 3642451721 eText ISBN: 9783642451737, 364245173X Copyright year: 2016 Format: PDF Available from $ 169.00 USD SKU 9783642451737 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. Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/9cVqBv
