Knowledge-intensive business services : geography and innovation / edited by David Doloreux, Mark Freel, Richard Shearmur.

Revisions of papers presented at two seminars held Sept. 13-15, 2008 in Bordeaus and Apr. 13-15, 2009 in Montreal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / David Doloreux, Mark Freel and Richard Shearmur -- US international trade in knowledge-intensive business services / Barney Warf -- Scale, distance and embeddedness: knowledge-intensive business location and growth in Canada / Richard Sheamur -- Knowledge-intensive business services users and uses: exploring the propensity to innovation related cooperation with knowledge-intensive business services / Mark Freel -- Knowledge-intensive business services as knowledge mediators in different regional contexts: the case of Norway / Heidi Wiig Aslesen and Arne Isaksen -- Knowledge intermediaries or routine service producers? Exploring Finnish M-KIBS using the innovation system approach / Mika Kautonen and Marja Hyypiä -- Are knowledge flows between knowledge-intensive business services firms and their clients dominated by codified or tacit knowledge? Why? The case of Québec city / Réjean Landry, Nabil Amara and David Doloreux -- Innovation and the pattern of knowledge sourcing in the Vienna software cluster / Michaela Trippl and Franz Tödtling -- The socio-economic and innovation landscape of knowledge-intensive business services in the Ottawa region / David Doloreux, Daniela Defazio and David Rangdrol -- Inside KIBS' black box: exploring the existence and function of knowledge angels / Emmanuel Muller, Andrea Zenker and Jean-Alain Héraud -- Knowledge-intensive business services, territory and innovation: concluding remarks / Richard Shearmur and David Doloreux.