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We are now living through a period of knowledge capitalism in which, as Castells put it, the action of knowledge upon knowledge is the main source of productivity. In the face of such transformation, the economic, social and institutional contours of contemporary capitalism are being reshaped. At the heart of this world are an emergent set of economies, regions, institutions and peoples central of the flows and translations of knowledge. This book provides an interdisciplinary review of the triad of knowledge, space, economy on entering the 21st century. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary...

Drawing on a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, this book produces t he first interdisciplinary review of the triad of knowledge, space, an d economy on entering the twenty-first century.

During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, services, in particular, finance, information and creative services, have become deeply embedded in the processes of urban growth. In Asia-Pacific the rise of service industries has lead to national modernization programmes and globalization strategies. Services are also driving change in the internal form of city regions and are being actively deployed as instruments of metropolitan reconfiguration and land use...

As the 21st century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services and goods are produced and consumed. One of the key drivers of this change is information and communications technology (ICT). It has transformed the role of space and time in patterns of economic development, in the rise of globalization and in the scale and structure of organizations. ICT has therefore accelerated the process of continual change and evolution that is the hallmark of both the capitalist economy and of organizations. Technological innovation has stimulated the introduction of new forms of...

The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world's most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the `industrialization paradigm' and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic landscape among leading Asian states now comprises a burgeoning `New Economy' spectrum of the most advanced industrial trajectories, including finance, the knowledge economy and the `new cultural economy'. In an agenda-setting volume, New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities draws on stimulating research...