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 …

We analyze the development of the German knowledge base measured by co-classifications of patents by German inventors … hypothesis states that technologies which become more central to the knowledge base are also characterized by a higher …. -- Knowledge relatedness ; Innovator networks ; Interdisciplinary research ; Patents ; Key Technology …

Various forms of interaction during the process of research and innovation constitute a global network of knowledge … network to participate in global knowledge ows and to increase success in idea generation, invention and innovation. In this … chapter, we review the literature on two of the most important channels of international knowledge diffusion in the field of …

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 …

positive effects on innovation of both the total number of relations and of access to a larger knowledge base. However, when … some sort of public good to the innovation system. -- Innovator networks ; Gatekeeper ; Zero Iflated Generalised Poisson …

The last decades saw a pronounced shift in innovation policy in Germany and many other countries towards increased …. -- Cluster ; Innovation Policy ; Evaluation ; Social Network Analysis …

The flow of knowledge through interaction between innovative actors is central to the systemic view of innovation. We … core competencies of the network. -- Innovator networks ; innovation system ; R&D cooperation ; mobility …