ABSTRACT
knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are private companies or organisations relying heavily on professional knowledge, that is, knowledge or expertise related to a specific discipline or domain, supplying intermediate products and services that are knowledge-based. A regional innovation system (RIS) can be thought of as a concentration of interacting private and public interests, formal institutions, and other organisations that function according to organisational and institutional arrangements and relationships that are conducive to the generation, use, and dissemination of knowledge. Finally, the approach of RIS highlights the critical importance of the region for the economic coordination that triggers the innovation and for developing an intensive and interactive network between innovative actors, that is., firms and nonfirm organisations. In addition, the region enables actors to attract, create, and disseminate information by providing the common cultural and social values which facilitate social interaction among the different actors involved in knowledge dissemination.
