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THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHY OF INNOVATION AND THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE
Davide Castellani
Introduction1
The Economic Geography literature largely recognises that there are benefits from localised interactions and exchanges of knowledge which generate what Storper and Venables (2004) characterise as the ‘local buzz’ that tends to lead to an ever-increasing geographical concentration of innovation activity in a few regions. However, it may be both unrealistic and undesirable for economic regions to rely only on ‘local buzz’ for developing their knowledge base, and successful clusters need to combine knowledge internal and external to the cluster. To this end, ‘global pipelines’ need to be established in order to allow external knowledge ...
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