Abstract
Global geography and the organisation of human activities on earth are fundamentally managed by governments of different nations. Each sovereign country has their own legislations and interest governing economic activity within their boundaries. Governments have numerous roles in the economic activity. Conceptually ‘government’ refers here to a set of public sector organisations that are responsible for governing the specific areas and spatial scales. As an example, municipalities are interested on the local scale and activities that impact their specific vicinities where as regional or national governments or bodies are focusing on larger spatial scales. The nation state may be considered as the fundamental level of regulation as the states have the right to conduct taxation of its inhabitants. This is the reason why international economy is governed with trade and commercial treaties and is based on international agreements. This chapter elaborates the key characteristics of innovation geography.
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Yigitcanlar, T., Inkinen, T. (2019). Characteristics of Innovation Geography. In: Geographies of Disruption. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03207-4_4
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