Social Capital in the Knowledge Economy [electronic resource] :Theory and Empirics / by Hans Westlund.
by Westlund, Hans [author.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
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BookSeries: Advances in Spatial Science: Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.Description: X, 212 p. 10 illus. online resource.ISBN: 9783540353669.Subject(s): Economics | Regional planning | Entrepreneurship | Sociology | Human Geography | Economics/Management Science | Regional Science | Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning | Entrepreneurship | R & D/Technology Policy | Human Geography | SociologyDDC classification: 338.9 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Social Capital as an Economic Concept -- Social Capital as Capital in the Economic Sense -- Social Capital as a Spatial Externality -- The Social Capital of the Enterprise -- Social Capital and Entrepreneurship -- Social Capital and Innovation: Actors and Policies -- Why Compare Sweden, Japan and USA/California? -- Social Capital Expressed in the Form of Labor Market Relations -- Social Capital and Institutions for Growth, Innovation and Renewal -- Civil Society’s Social Capital -- The Knowledge-Intensive Biotech Industry: Structures and Policies -- The Biotech Industry’s Social Capital: An Empirical Study -- Some Forward Looking Comments.
This book analyzes the social capital of the growing knowledge economy. The theoretical part discusses social capital as an economic concept, its relation to traditional capital theory and its role as a spatial externality. A theory of the social capital of the enterprise is developed and social capital's importance for entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development is analyzed. The empicical part compare some central aspects of social capital of three different socio-economic systems: the US, Japan and Sweden, regarding labor market relations, innovation systems and the civil societies. The social capitals of the knowledge intensive biotech industries of the three countries are studied and compared. Finally, a number of issues for further research are discussed.
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