(Hardback)

Showcasing experiments in architecture, engineering, and construction designemploying technological infrastructures that link people and their ideas across physical, intellectual, and cultural boundariesthe authors consider such issues as the links between competence and innovation and between individual and collective knowledge.

(Hardback)

This book explores the new economy in essays by scholars and researchers from around the world who look at local, regional, national, and transnational patterns that might be successfully employed elsewhere.

The volume begins with a section devoted to regional economic development, learning networks, and systems of innovations.