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Spatial Patterns in the Knowledge Society

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German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2009

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Knowledge was already considered an important resource by the industrial society and a motor for the development of society and its spaces. In comparison, today’s visible transition to the knowledge society is distinguishable through a qualitative leap in the way knowledge is produced, shared, and used. As early as the 1960s Peter Drucker mentioned the knowledge society as an emerging economic and social order in which knowledge would replace work, raw materials, and capital and become the central source of productivity, economic growth, and social change.1 These radical changes have a technical, an economic, and a social dimension and their effect becomes apparent at the spatial level.

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Kujath, H.J., Stein, A. (2009). Spatial Patterns in the Knowledge Society. In: Kilper, H. (eds) German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2009. German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03402-2_4

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