This book discusses interdisciplinary views of understanding and conceptualizing the changing global economy, by emphasizing a specific spatial perspective that mirrors unequal economic development, and selective specialization and growth processes. Recent economic developments that require further attention include the restructuring activities of existing economic cores, the rise of new industrial clusters with complex knowledge ecologies, the rapid spread of global production and innovation networks, as well as new geographies of knowledge creation and circulation, such as temporary clusters during international trade fairs or trans-local corporate knowledge networks at a global scale.
