By Ron A. Boschma, Robert C. Kloosterman
Jan Lambooy retired in October 2002. whilst Jan was once requested how he desired to have fun this get together, he was once adamant that no nice festivities may still happen. generally, Jan sought after only a clinical convention so he “could study whatever from it” and, as he insisted, no nice festivities. in order that is what we did and a convention was once organised in Amsterdam on 25 October 2002, hosted via the college of Economics and Econometrics of the collage of Amsterdam. neighbors of Jan’s from academia within the Netherlands and in a foreign country participated and hence paid homage to Jan, either as a scientist and as someone. we're now very proud to offer this festschrift, first of all because the palpable results of this convention and secondly as a token of honest admire and nice affection for Jan. Edited volumes run the chance of being a hotchpotch of contributions on a wide selection of themes. the following, we've got explicitly fascinated by a principal topic in modern monetary geography and local technology, specifically the connection among studying, innovation and clustering. the world over popular scientists made either theoretical and empirical contributions to this quantity. we predict this e-book constitutes a vast palette of up to date pondering and examine at the dating among spatial focus and innovation and wish it is going to play an important function in destiny debates in this issue.
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