The paper focuses on the territorial shaping of knowledge dynamics as one of the driving forces for innovation …. Knowledge dynamics are unfolding from processes of creation, use, transformation and diffusion of knowledge. Due to both the … ongoing restructuring of global value chains and the changes in the organization of innovation 'combinatorial knowledge …

encouraging, supporting, and advancing knowledge production (research, research and experimental development, R&D) and knowledge … of its employees (and their competences) as a potential opportunity and asset to perform creatively in knowledge … production and knowledge application. The academic firm has an interest to engage in networks with universities (higher education …

We analyze R&D collaboration networks in industries where firms are competitors in the product market. Firms' benefits … from collaborations arise by sharing knowledge about a cost-reducing technology. By forming collaborations, however, firms …

innovation is the assumption that co-located firms engaged in innovative activities benefit from knowledge that diffuses locally …. In order to access this knowledge, firms are often required to form more- or less formal relations with co-located firms … become networks of strategic collaboration and others don’t, we study link formation within European biopharmaceutical …

In this paper we analyze R&D collaboration networks in industries where firms are competitors in the product market …. Firms' benefits from collaborations arise by sharing knowledge about a cost-reducing technology. By forming collaborations …