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 …

distance between firms for innovation by interaction. …

-creating takeovers and increase innovation and do not induce agency con icts of managerial entrenchment. This implies that for innovative …

with experience. We then reject increasing confidence in private information or learning about the structure of the …