Regional innovation has been incorporated into planning debates broadening the view of the crucial role that networks play in regional development as vehicles of knowledge and innovation. Research in this area has focused on the effects of the 'innovative milieu' (Maillat 1991; Kogut et al. 1993;...

The Australian Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program is typical of the ways many governments are seeking to promote cross-sector R&D collaboration. Scientists are key resources in these organizational arrangements. However, there is only fragmentary information available about why and when...