Download or read book Generating Agglomeration Online Creating Places Without Geographical Borders written by Pauline Kuss and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Culture, Technology, Nations, grade: 1,0, National University of Singapore, language: English, abstract: This paper argues that the internet could support the creation of a "space-less place" where agglomeration effects can be re-created independent from geographic location. Addressing dominant doubts and critiques it proposes the framework of an online platform in which space-less agglomeration can occur and which thus, if correctly implemented and administered, holds great potential for innovative development in countries which find themselves unfortunately located outside the economic core region of today's world. From the perspective of geographic economics, location factors seem to be of major importance to explain existing (global) economical orderings which, when favorable, allow for agglomeration effects such as knowledge spillovers that are necessary for innovative processes. However, the worldwide spread of the internet and its implied potential to transmit information and communication to every connected corner of the planet might make information technology the “space-shrinking technology” which ultimately renders spatial differences between places unimportant. While scholars agree that the internet offers global access to information, a majority disbelieves in its potential to challenge geographical advantages and thus disrupt the world's economic ordering. Although internet communication allows for global connectivity it might fail to adequately provide the density, diversity, spontaneity and effective communication of tacit knowledge needed for innovative business practices.

Download or read book World Intellectual Property Report 2019 The Geography of Innovation Local Hotspots Global Networks written by World Intellectual Property Organization and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where exactly is innovation taking place? Relying on millions of patent and scientific publication records, the World Intellectual Property Report 2019 documents how the geography of innovation has evolved over the past few decades.

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Download or read book Chinese Science and Technology Industrial Parks written by Susan M. Walcott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title first published in 2003. This book examines types of advanced technology Chinese districts set aside for developing products for national and global markets. Culminating in a proposed best practice model for Chinese integration into global networks, based on China's own particular political economy.

Download or read book The Blackwell City Reader written by Gary Bridge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities. Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell's A Companion to the City

Download or read book The Politics of Borders written by Matthew Longo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borders are changing in response to terrorism and immigration. This book shows why this matters, especially for sovereignty, individual liberty, and citizenship.

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Download or read book Rediscovering Geography written by Rediscovering Geography Committee and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-04-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As political, economic, and environmental issues increasingly spread across the globe, the science of geography is being rediscovered by scientists, policymakers, and educators alike. Geography has been made a core subject in U.S. schools, and scientists from a variety of disciplines are using analytical tools originally developed by geographers. Rediscovering Geography presents a broad overview of geography's renewed importance in a changing world. Through discussions and highlighted case studies, this book illustrates geography's impact on international trade, environmental change, population growth, information infrastructure, the condition of cities, the spread of AIDS, and much more. The committee examines some of the more significant tools for data collection, storage, analysis, and display, with examples of major contributions made by geographers. Rediscovering Geography provides a blueprint for the future of the discipline, recommending how to strengthen its intellectual and institutional foundation and meet the demand for geographic expertise among professionals and the public.

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