知識經濟的發展既是人類熟悉的歷史過程，卻也是全然陌生的經驗。它是國家永續發展與產業升級的方向。工業地理學是一門研究工業活動空間分佈規律的學科。在知識經濟的發展下，工業地理學的研究出現了許多重大的理論課題與實際問題，包括產業新佈局與再區位、生產組織分工、國際貿易組織與工業生產、永續經營與發展等，亟待我們給以新理論的建立與科學的論證。
Knowledge economy is a familiar historic process of human society, but it is also entirely unaccustomed experience for most people. It's a direction of industry production and sustainable development for a country. The coming of knowledge economy provides many interesting study topics for industry geography, such as the new distribution and relocation of industry, the new production organization of industry, the relationship between international trade organization and industry production and the sustainable management and development etc. All these topics need to have critical discussions and be theorized.
