The renewed interest in knowledge, especially prevalent in the economic discourse of the last few decades, has traditionally been coupled with an urge towards innovation. Innovation is now considered the main driver ofdevelopment, and knowledge the necessary premise for innovation. The precise connection between knowledge and innovation, however, has been left largely unexplored mainly because of the difficulties involved in the polysemic nature of knowledge. The connection enters a new, larger sphere of ambiguity when socio-spatial parameters are introduced. Following the recent...