framework is rarely related to investigations of regional knowledge network structures, because in RIS literature relational … structures and interaction networks are discussed in a rather fuzzy and generic manner with the ‘network term’ often being used … knowledge exchange relations in the RIS literature from the perspective of social network analysis. More precise, it links …

The Silk Roads were a decentralized network of trade routes that connected ancient cities across Eurasia. Goods, ideas … network, this paper finds that areas within 50 KM of the historic location of the Silk Roads have higher levels of economic … activity today. The persistent effect of proximity to the ancient trade network is associated with increased access to modern …

The success breeds success hypothesis has been mainly applied to theoretical network approaches. We investigate the … network, its topological architecture, the individual actors that make up the network, and through a comparison of the Airbus … structure is mirrored in the architecture of the European aerospace R&D collaboration network, where well-connected hub …

throughout the input-output network structure of regional economies in the European Union. To do so, it develops weighted and … directed input-output network models across the European Union (EU) NUTS-2 regions and computes measures of network typology … capturing connectivity, centrality, and clustering. Network analysis facilitates a clustering of the EU countries into groups of …

firms or academic institutions, or the nature of the collaborations on the probability of local link formation. …

between actors in different industries. This paper presents a network study on the Dutch aviation and space industry. Both …

interpreting empirical models of peer effects. We find that geography network effects play a highly significant causal role in … firm performance. We then implement a novel structured network regression to separately identify the effects of geography …

which local development processes result from three components: local resource systems, networks, institutions and enabling …

regions suggest that network relations are crucial sources of R&D spillovers, but with potentially different features. While …