In recent years, innovation processes involve more heterogenous actors inside and outside the firm. Little is known … however about the spatial impact of this organisational decomposition of innovation processes (ODIP): Does it lead to a … geographical dispersion of innovation activities as well? Furthermore, which parts of the innovation process are carried out …

By applying the evolutionary economic geography approach and focusing on the organizational dimension of the knowledge … knowledge dynamics unfold in time and space and lead to innovative change. The article focuses on the connections of cumulative … and combinatorial knowledge dynamics at the micro level of firms and other organizations. The empirical results base on …

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 …

The paper focuses on the territorial shaping of knowledge dynamics as one of the driving forces for innovation … ongoing restructuring of global value chains and the changes in the organization of innovation 'combinatorial knowledge … dynamics' gain a more prominent role in innovation. Firms are facing an increasing need to combine heterogeneous knowledge …

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 …

This paper investigates the embeddedness of European regions in different types of inter-regional knowledge networks … dimension in regional knowledge production activities. The results reveal conspicuous differences between the knowledge networks … spill-over effects of region-external factors on centrality in the co-publication network. Thus, the distinctive knowledge …

Little effort has been made to identify industries' knowledge networks, and to what extent knowledge relations occur … knowledge bases. Our study shows that the structure of the knowledge networks differs between the two industries, and few … knowledge linkages have been established between the two. Our findings also suggest that the gap between the two industries …

This paper studies the effects of public research (publications) and innovation output (patents) on national economic … as well as less and more developed countries are studied separately. The results confirm the effect of innovation output … on productivity for more developed countries. Simultaneously, innovation output is found to have negative impacts on …

substantiates this claim showing that collaborative R&D subsidies impact regions' innovation growth when providing access to related … variety and embedding regions into central positions in cross-regional knowledge networks. …