König, Michael D.; Battiston, Stefano; Napoletano, Mauro; … - 2008
introduces a new model to investigate the efficiency and evolution of networks of firms
exchanging knowledge in R&D partnerships … due to (i) the path dependent
character of the partner selection process, (ii) the presence of knowledge externalities and … become more specialized on specific domains
of a technology and they tend to combine their knowledge with the one of other …