(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 …

-loop learning. Differences exist for more specific parts of climate governance. Three resulting hypotheses give conditions for the …This paper compares and contrasts the nature and scope of change in the domestic climate governance of India and South … case, while more simple networks could be identified in India. Using data from an expert survey and from semi …

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 …