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Introduction: knowledge intensive business services and regional competitiveness: an overview / João J. Ferreira, Mário Raposo, Cristina Fernandes and Marcus Dejardin -- KIBS and industrial dynamics -- Knowledge intensive business services research: a bibliometric study of leading international journals (1994-2014) / Alexandra Braga and Carla Marques -- Kibs and the dynamics of industrial clusters: a complex adaptive systems approach / Benoit Desmarchelier, Faridadh Djellal and Faiz Gallouj -- Bad news travels fast: the role of informal networks for SME-KIBS cooperation / Daniel Feser and Till Proeger -- KIBS and their Context -- Does the geographic distribution of knowledge intensive business services affect the use of services for innovation?: empirical evidence from Quebec KIBS manufacturers / David Doloreux and Richard Shearmur -- Institutions and spin-offs: determining factors for establishment and early market entry success of innovation based spin-offs from KIBS-firms / Kjersti Vikse Meland and Tatiana A. Iakovleva -- Survival of knowledge intensive business service firms: the role of agglomeration externalities / Sam Tavassoli and Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol -- KIBS and their contribution to regional competitiveness and economic development -- Entrepreneurship and KIBS: key factors in the growth of territories / Joaquín Alcazar, Norat Roig-Tierno, Alicia Mas-Tur and Belén Ribeiro-Navarrete -- Contribution of knowledge intensive activities to regional competitiveness: production function approach / Anna-Leena Asikainen and Giovanni Mangiarotti -- KIBS as a factor in meetings industry competitiveness creation in Krakow, Poland / Krzysztof Borodako, Jadwiga Berbeka and Michal Rudnicki -- Interactive relationships, development effects and knowledge intermediaries among KIBS firms and their clients: a comparison of the Hsinchu and Tainan regions, Taiwan / Tai-Shan Hu, Chien-Yuan Lin and Hung-Nien Hsieh -- Regional competitiveness and localised knowledge