Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction JOHN R. BRYSON, PETER W. DANIELS, NICK HENRY AND JANE POLLARD; Knowledge, space, economy; Power/economic knowledge: symbolic and spatial formations JOHN ALLEN; Materialities, spatialities, globalities JOHN LAW AND KEVIN HETHERINGTON; Knowledge, innovation and location JEREMY HOWELLS; The state and the contradictions of the knowledge-driven economy BOB JESSOP.
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This book provides the first interdisciplinary review of the triad of knowledge, space, economy on entering the twenty-first century. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, the first part of the book comprises statements drawn from leading academics on the role of knowledge in capitalism. The remaining two parts explore the landscape of knowledge capitalism through a series of analyses of knowledge in action within a range of economic, political and cultural contexts.