knowledge spillovers, as they serve as central actors of innovation networks and stimulate network activities. Whereas the … linkages between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the impact on patent quality in … of respective institutions within innovation networks thereby reinforces the radicalness of inventions. However, we do …

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 …

observed from 1985 to 2013, in 13 German regions. We find that the initiative increases network size and innovation activities …

The article serves as an introduction to the empirical analysis of innovation or knowledge networks based on patent … data with a particular focus on regional networks. I provide a review of the literature of innovation networks and how it … connects to systemic approaches within the field of innovation studies. The SNA methodology is introduced by performing a …