science: research collaboration and scientist mobility. We thereby focus on the motives and determinants to collaborate or …Various forms of interaction during the process of research and innovation constitute a global network of knowledge … generation and diffusion. Countries and their research organizations and individual scientists need to be embedded in this …

HEIs contribute most to knowledge base renewal if they have a strong research output and are locally embedded …. International research embeddedness of HEIs benefits regional development only if combined with a central position in the regional …

the most controversial themes in the research of innovation systems, regional networks and new economic geography. While … there is ample empirical evidence on the constituent force of co-location for the formation of research alliances, little … studies on the relevance of geographical proximity for research outputs. We utilize original and unique survey data from …

Cluster policies aim at improving collaboration between co-located actors to address systemic failures. As yet, cluster …