Overview
- Covers an understudied topic - the role of universities in regional development - in the field of regional innovation studies
- Brings together cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research
- Highly relevant as reference for researchers and students in both economics and management science
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Spatial Science (ADVSPATIAL)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Inter-Firm Cooperation and (Regional) Clusters
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Entrepreneurial Activities, Innovation and Regional Networks
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Knowledge Transfers Between University and Industry
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
João J. Ferreira (PhD in Management) is associate professor in the Department of Management and Economics of the University of Beira Interior (Portugal) and is a research member of NECE – Research Centre in Business Sciences. He received his PhD in 2004 and was appointed associate professor in 2012. His research interests include: strategy, competitiveness and entrepreneurship. He is Editor and Reviewer Board of some International Journals and he is author of some books and he has published extensively in a variety of leading journals.
Mário L. Raposo (PhD in Management) is Full Professor in the Department of Management and Economics at the University of Beira Interior – Portugal. He is the scientific coordinator of NECE - Research Centre in Business Sciences. In the present belongs to the group of evaluators of management courses in Portugal. His research interests include: marketing, entrepreneurship, innovation, competitiveness and education. He has author or co-author of various books and papers published in several international journals and act as Reviewer Board of some International Journals.
Roel Rutten is assistant professor in the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Tilburg University, the Netherlands and visiting fellow in the Newcastle University Business School, United Kingdom. His research focuses on networks and innovation, organizational learning and knowledge creation and on the spatial dimension of innovation. Some of his recent publications address to role of socio-cultural diversity with regard to innovation. Rutten has published extensively in leading journals in his field and has co-authored various book and book chapters for prestigious international publishers.
Attila Varga is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, Hungary. He holds a Ph.D. from West Virginia University, USA. His research interest includes: regionalgrowth, regional economic development policy, regional innovation systems, the economics of technological change and policy impact modelling. Professor Varga has published over sixty scholarly articles and book chapters in English and Hungarian. His papers appeared (among others) in the Journal of Regional Science, the Journal of Urban Economics, Papers in Regional Science, Regional Studies and Research Policy. He authored and edited five international books and he is also a referee for several major international journals of regional economics and technological change. He is editor of Regional Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cooperation, Clusters, and Knowledge Transfer
Book Subtitle: Universities and Firms Towards Regional Competitiveness
Editors: João J.M. Ferreira, Mário Raposo, Roel Rutten, Attila Varga
Series Title: Advances in Spatial Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33194-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-33193-0Published: 11 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44023-6Published: 12 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-33194-7Published: 26 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1430-9602
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9375
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 263
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, Economic Geography, Administration, Organization and Leadership