The Elgar companion to innovation and knowledge creation / edited by Harald Bathelt (Professor and Canada Research Chair in Innovation and Governance, Departments of Political Science and Geography and Planning, University of Toronto (Canada)), Patrick Cohendet (Professor, Department of International Business, HEC Montréal Canada), Sebastian Henn (Professor, Department of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, (Germany)), Laurent Simon (Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, HEC Montréal (Canada)). Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017 ; © 2017