Preface:. Knowledge transfer – a new pillar for regional development?

This volume of RGA presents projects and initiatives dealing with knowledge management and knowledge transfer in a regional context. In the last 30 years, knowledge has become more and more an important economic resource, a factor of production in a knowledge based society. Today, many employees in the private and public sector can be characterised as “knowledge workers”. They three key elements of knowledge management are: man, organisation and technology. The first approaches, which were ma...