Chapter 1 Introduction, David Doloreux, Mark Freel, Richard Shearmur; Chapter 2 US International Trade in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services, Barney Warf; Chapter 3 Scale, Distance and Embeddedness: Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Location and Growth in Canada, Richard Shearmur; Chapter 4 Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Users and Uses: Exploring the Propensity to Innovation Related Cooperation with Knowledge-Intensive Business Services, Mark Freel; Chapter 5 Knowledge-Intensive Business Services as Knowledge Mediators in Different Regional Contexts: The Case of Norway, Heidi Wiig Aslesen, Arne Isaksen; Chapter 6 1This chapter is based on a study conducted in the research project KIBS and KISAs as Channels between Global and Local (3-channel), which was funded by the Finnish National Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes) in its Innovative Services Research Programme 20062008. We would like to express our gratitude to Anna-Maija Rautiainen of Tekes and Anne-Mari Jarvelin of Advansis Ltd. for their support and insight during the course of the project. We wish to thank also our colleagues Hanna-Mari Puuska, Anne Tuhkunen and Mikael Andolin for their invaluable inputs in this study. Last but not least, we wish to extend our thanks to the editors of this book for their constructive comments and for this opportunity. Naturally, any remaining inaccuracies and errors remain the sole responsibility of the authors., Mika Kautonen, Marja Hyypia; Chapter 7 Are Knowledge Flows between Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Firms and their Clients Dominated by Codified or Tacit Knowledge? Why? The Case of Quebec City, Rejean Landry, Nabil Amara, David Doloreux; Chapter 8 Innovation and the Pattern of Knowledge Sourcing in the Vienna Software Cluster, Michaela Trippl, Franz Todtling; Chapter 9 The Socio-Economic and Innovation Landscape of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in the Ottawa Region, David Doloreux, Daniela Defazio, David Rangdrol; Cha