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This paper assesses Digital Information Systems (DIS) that are increasingly being used to manage global production networks (GPN). It evaluates if globalization and new information and communication technologies make knowledge spatially fluid. Then it highlights the problems associated with analyses of knowledge as an economic phenomenon. It concludes that, despite DIS, the fluidity of knowledge remains constrained in space: while cross-border exchange of knowledge has penetrated new geographic areas, it remains limited to a finite number of specialized clusters.