(learning) arising from relations and governance of relational risk, which includes risk of lock-in and risk of spillover … performance and evolution of clusters.It develops three types of embedding: institutional embedding, structural embedding (network ….A basic proposition is that innovative clusters face the challenge of combining exploration and exploitation.Hypotheses are …

cognitive distance. Hence the importance of networks for innovation.On the governance side, the paper gives a review of … density and strength of ties in innovation networks, concerning both competence and governance. …This paper gives a survey of insights into inter-firm alliances and networks for innovation, from a constructivist …

Taking into account both competence and governance issues, and six dimensions of tie strength, this article argues that … in networks for exploration there are good reasons, counter to the thesis of the 'strength of weak ties', for a dense … structure of ties that are strong in most dimensions.By contrast, in exploitation networks there are good reasons for structures …

and strength of ties in innovation networks.We study both exploration and exploitation networks in the Dutch multimedia …

This article connects theory of learning with theory of governance, in the context of inter-firm relations … relational risk are identified: hold-up and spillover risk.For the governance of relations, i.e. the control of relational risk …

approach in the research fields of innovation studies and economic geography. Secondly, to propose a broadened interpretation …, regions and time periods and for analytically integrating the cognitive, organizational and spatial dimensions of innovation … and learning. Thirdly, to provide methodological suggestions for how to apply such broadened interpretation of the …

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm … between that cognitive theory and Penrose's theory of the growth of the firm.As in Penrose's work, the focus is on learning …