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Technological Change, Uncertainty and Innovation Networks: Towards a Dynamic Theory of Economic Space

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The theoretical and empirical literature on the relationships between space and technological change is literally immense, and scattered along different directions that may be listed tentatively in the following:

  • the theory of innovation diffusion; the spatial geography of R&D;

  • the spatial preconditions for (and obstacles to) innovation: presence of human capital, availability of producer services, ‘urban’ environment, industrial structure;

  • the characteristics of innovative environments: valleys, corridors, routes, parks; the ‘Third Italy’ phenomenon; the ‘milieux innovateurs’ of the new Gremi approach (see below);

  • the regional differentials in productivity growth;

  • the effects of technological change on regional development the effects of technological change on urban development;

  • the spatial effects of specific technologies: industrial automation, information technologies, telecommunications, …

This chapter was previously published in D. Boyce, P. Nijkamp and D. Shefer (eds.) (1991), Regional Science: Retrospect and Prospect, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 211–250.

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Acknowledgement

I am indebted for useful comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of the paper to many friends and colleagues; among them, I am particularly grateful to Olivier Crevoisier, David Keeble, Linda Kimball, Alfred Thwaites, and Peter Townroe.

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Camagni, R. (2017). Technological Change, Uncertainty and Innovation Networks: Towards a Dynamic Theory of Economic Space. In: Capello, R. (eds) Seminal Studies in Regional and Urban Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57807-1_4

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