The systemic dynamics of knowledge, innovation and growth: An introduction

The book hence aims to highlight that it is not mere co-location that favours knowledge to spill over and benefits proximate firms. It is instead the involvement of firms within selective and directed networks that makes learning possible and knowledge externalities available for co-located firms. The book addresses here the conceptual shift from the traditional view of productive interactions (i.e. linkages along the value chain backing the production of artefacts – final products and machines) toward the notion of knowledge interactions, where the focus is on the complex structure of relations used to exploit, create and transmit technological capabilities.