Knowledge Flows, Technological Change and Regional Growth in the European Union

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Knowledge as a Driver of Technological Change and Regional Growth

   • Małgorzata Runiewicz-Wardyn

   Pages 1-45

3. Innovative, Technological, and Growth Capacities of the EU Regions

   • Małgorzata Runiewicz-Wardyn

   Pages 47-79

4. The Efficiency of Regional Innovation Systems (RIS). The Role of High-Tech Industry and Knowledge-Intensive Services

   • Małgorzata Runiewicz-Wardyn

   Pages 81-102

5. The Role of Intra-, Inter-, and Extra-Regional Sources of Knowledge Spillovers. The Evidence of High-Tech Industries

   • Małgorzata Runiewicz-Wardyn

   Pages 103-130

6. Localized Knowledge Spillovers, Agglomeration Externalities, and Technological Dynamics in High-Tech Industries. Evidence Based on the EU Regions

   • Małgorzata Runiewicz-Wardyn

   Pages 131-156

7. Knowledge Spillovers, Technological Change, and Regional Growth. Empirical Evidence of the EU Regions

   • Małgorzata Runiewicz-Wardyn

   Pages 157-190

8. Back Matter

   Pages 191-231

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The book provides conceptual and empirical insights into the complex relationship between knowledge flows and regional growth in the EU. The author critically scrutinizes and enhances the RIS (Regional Innovation System) approach, discussing innovation as a technological, institutional and evolutionary process. Moreover, she advances the ongoing discourse on the role of space and technological proximity in the process of innovation and technological externalities. The book closes with an investigation of the role of technological change and knowledge spillovers in the dynamic growth and “catching-up” of EU regions. ​

• European Union
• Knowledge flows
• Regional growth
• Regional innovation systems
• Technological change

• Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland

  Małgorzata Runiewicz-Wardyn

Dr. Małgorzata Runiewicz-Wardyn is an Assistant Professor in Kozminski University in Warsaw; a researcher  in the Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research Center (TIGER) and a postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development of the Berkeley University of California (2008 and 2009). She is an author of numerous scientific publications and an expert in EU funded research projects related to knowledge economy, information society and international competitiveness.

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