We analyse the determinants of network formation in German’s biotechnology sector combining elements from social network analysis (SNA) and a regression framework for count data. For the latter we adopt a regional innovation system perspective, we estimate the number of total and...

Main tasks of academia are to create new knowledge and to transfer that knowledge into the economy. Regarding this work, four channels of knowledge transfer are considered (based on Hamm et al, 2012): (1) basic transfer e.g. publications, (2) human capital e.g. graduates, (3) formation of...