Social Capital in the Knowledge Economy
Subtitle: Theory and Empirics (Advances in Spatial Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9783540353645
Subjects: Business communication & presentation; Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Earth Sciences - Geography; Economics - General; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Business & Economics / Urban & Regional; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Knowledge Economy; Political Science : Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev; Regional Development; Science : Earth Sciences - Geography; Social Capital; Business Communication - General; Human capital; Infrastructure (Economics); Social capital (Sociology)
First sentence: During the 1990s a new concept of capital, social capital, came into general use alongside the established concepts of financial, real, and human capital.
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.