knowledge and ways of knowledge combination in innovation processes. Innovation Biographies allow capturing relationships …The paper presents the methodology of Innovation Biographies that has been designed to study the time-space dynamics of …, contextual settings and different kinds of knowledge and enable insights into the evolvement and development of innovations. By …

sector level, focusing on their role in innovation processes, little attention has been paid to the knowledge workers within …The knowledge society is characterized by knowledge becoming a kind of commodity that can be traded and priced …. Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are representative for such a knowledge-based economy, since their main input and …

In the literature there is a controversy about the relevance of the spatial dimension in innovation collaboration. We … innovation projects. To this end, we introduce a social-psychological approach to the field of economic geography. The empirical … part is a longitudinal study of 49 inter-organisational innovation groups in Germany. We find that the share of regional …

Measuring the innovation performance of regions or nations has been repeatedly done in the literature. What is missing … in the literature is a discussion of what innovation performance of a region means. How do regions or nations contribute … really to the innovation output of firms? And how can this contribution be investigated in an empirically sound way? We argue …

proximity is of particular importance when the decision for external innovation collaboration partners has to be made. This …