Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Geography and Innovation

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of research on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation. This book brings together current thinking on this subject from geographic and territorial perspectives. Researchers from across Europe and North America present contributions from a wide range of disciplinary approaches including management studies, innovation studies and geography. They explore areas such as innovation related cooperation between KIBS firms and their industrial partners, how KIBS firms mediate business knowledge and the impact that KIBS make in local, regional and international contexts. The book offers a timely exploration of the role played by the geographic and institutional environment in the processes that link KIBS, innovation and territory across different contexts.

Chapter 1 Introduction, David Doloreux, Mark Freel, Richard Shearmur; Chapter 2 US International Trade in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services, Barney Warf; Chapter 3 Scale, Distance and Embeddedness: Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Location and Growth in Canada, Richard Shearmur; Chapter 4 Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Users and Uses: Exploring the Propensity to Innovation Related Cooperation with Knowledge-Intensive Business Services, Mark Freel; Chapter 5 Knowledge-Intensive Business Services as Knowledge Mediators in Different Regional Contexts: The Case of Norway, Heidi Wiig Aslesen, Arne Isaksen; Chapter 6 1This chapter is based on a study conducted in the research project ‘KIBS and KISAs as Channels between Global and Local (3-channel)’, which was funded by the Finnish National Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes) in its Innovative Services Research Programme 2006–2008. We would like to express our gratitude to Anna-Maija Rautiainen of Tekes and Anne-Mari Järvelin of Advansis Ltd. for their support and insight during the course of the project. We wish to thank also our colleagues Hanna-Mari Puuska, Anne Tuhkunen and Mikael Andolin for their invaluable inputs in this study. Last but not least, we wish to extend our thanks to the editors of this book for their constructive comments and for this opportunity. Naturally, any remaining inaccuracies and errors remain the sole responsibility of the authors., Mika Kautonen, Marja Hyypiä; Chapter 7 Are Knowledge Flows between Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Firms and their Clients Dominated by Codified or Tacit Knowledge? Why? The Case of Québec City, Réjean Landry, Nabil Amara, David Doloreux; Chapter 8 Innovation and the Pattern of Knowledge Sourcing in the Vienna Software Cluster, Michaela Trippl, Franz Tödtling; Chapter 9 The Socio-Economic and Innovation Landscape of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in the Ottawa Region, David Doloreux, Daniela Defazio, David Rangdrol; Cha

David Doloreux and Mark Freel are both Associate Professor in the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, Canada and Richard Shearmur is Professeur-chercheur at INRS - Université du Québec, Canada