The concept of Bridging Technologies (BTs) refers to technologies which are important for the regional knowledge base … patenting regions are not necessarily the ones that embed most new technologies in their Knowledge Space (KS). Our findings …

assessing how the structure of actor-based knowledge networks is affected by such policies. We continue in that direction and … analyze how technology-based regional knowledge spaces structurally respond to the introduction of a cluster policy. Taking … the example of the German BioRegio contest, we examine how such knowledge spaces in winning and non-winning regions …

brown regions and measure their transition using an innovative approach based on Social Network Analysis and Knowledge …