Urban and Regional Dimensions of Knowledge Production

Urban and Regional Dimensions of Knowledge Production was funded by North American Regional Science Council, Leverhulme Trust, Asian Institute for Regional Innovation.

Overview

Jung Won Sonn's research aims to uncover urban and regional aspects of technological knowledge production. There is ample evidence to suggest that R&D activities have become increasingly concentrated in a small number of cities of the world in spite of the development of telecommunication networks.

Jung Won Sonn and his team proposes to illuminate how the increasing concentration of R&D activities shapes both a city's physical form and its technological specialisation. 

People

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Outputs

Sonn, J.W. and I.K. Park. 2011, "The increasing importance of agglomeration economies hidden behind convergence: Geography of knowledge production." Urban Studies. 48(10) pp. 2180–2194

Sonn, J.W. and M. Storper. 2008, "The increasing importance of geographical proximity in knowledge production: An analysis of U.S. patent citations, 1975-1997." Environment and Planning A, vol. 40(5) pp.1020-1039.

Sonn, J.W. 2005 "Interregional and interurban convergence in knowledge production: Spatio-temporal changes in U.S. patenting, 1965-1997." Research Papers in Environmental and Spatial Analysis 100, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics. 

Impact

The research has been picked up and alluded to by Croydon Council Chief Executive in a speech at the London School of Economics.