There has been growing discussion about the role that regions play in global processes of innovation and advanced economic activity. Regions have come to be seen as actors, searching for enterprises, investments and new firms. The move towards globalisation and networking has also intensified both the regional concentration in the advanced industrialised countries of Europe and in the US and the orientation of these locations towards global networks. While processes of innovation are increasingly realised globally, they can also take a highly regionalised expression. This book sets the global...