Studies on open innovation (OI) have highlighted the importance of inter-organizational knowledge networks. However … of the most important Italian footwear clusters, this paper applies Social Network Analysis to investigate the role of …

The academic interest in innovation clusters and networks has given rise to a vast stream of works in recent years …. Besides defining the notions of clusters and innovation clusters or networks, a core topic within the literature relates to … various conceptual and analytical key issues, especially as regarding the spatial/geographical boundaries of an innovation …

In order to explain why innovation activities are increasingly structuring through networking and agglomeration … become the key competitive tools within a context of sustained innovation dynamics and rapid globalization, notably in high …

observed from 1985 to 2013, in 13 German regions. We find that the initiative increases network size and innovation activities … during the funding period but not afterwards. The impact of the BioRegio contest on network cohesion is moderate. In contrast …

Unternehmen, Forschungsinstituten oder Universitäten bilden ein komplexes Netzwerk von Akteuren, die Innovationen generieren und …. Dieses soziale Netzwerk ist das so definierte Innovatorennetzwerk nach Cantner und Graf (2007). …

-publication networks. Embeddedness refers to the network positioning of regions captured in terms of social network analytic (SNA …) centrality measures. The objective is to estimate how region-internal and region-external factors influence network embeddedness … in the distinct network types, in order to identify differences in their driving factors at the regional level. In our …

localization of its members. Innovation activity holding the predominant role in establishing bonds between the stakeholders is the … cause of establishment of the sustainable network between the cluster and the external actors, forming the international … cluster-network structure. Similar to the corporate alliances, successful international clusters tend to establish unions or …

We propose a random network model incorporating heterogeneity of agents and a continuous notion of homophily. Unlike … new employee via the social network. …