Little effort has been made to identify industries' knowledge networks, and to what extent knowledge relations occur … knowledge bases. Our study shows that the structure of the knowledge networks differs between the two industries, and few … knowledge linkages have been established between the two. Our findings also suggest that the gap between the two industries …

substantiates this claim showing that collaborative R&D subsidies impact regions' innovation growth when providing access to related … variety and embedding regions into central positions in cross-regional knowledge networks. …

framework is rarely related to investigations of regional knowledge network structures, because in RIS literature relational … knowledge exchange relations in the RIS literature from the perspective of social network analysis. More precise, it links … exemplarily show how the RIS literature and the literature on regional knowledge networks can benefit from considering insights of …

The paper contributes to the debate on how to measure regions' innovation performance. On the basis of the concept of … regional innovation efficiency, we propose a new measure that eases the issue of choosing between industry-specific or global … measures. We argue for the use of a robust shared-input DEA-model to estimate regions' innovation efficiency in a global manner …

Measuring the innovation performance of regions or nations has been repeatedly done in the literature. What is missing … in the literature is a discussion of what innovation performance of a region means. How do regions or nations contribute … really to the innovation output of firms? And how can this contribution be investigated in an empirically sound way? We argue …