This paper provides evidence of the effect of immigration-based networks on German trade. Germany presents a particular … interesting case study to examine the effect of ethnic networks on exports due to its high export dependence and its reserved … migration policy. According to our results, we find no trade creating effect from migrant networks on exports but on imports …

-publication networks. Embeddedness refers to the network positioning of regions captured in terms of social network analytic (SNA …This paper investigates the embeddedness of European regions in different types of inter-regional knowledge networks …, namely project based R&D collaborations within the EU Framework Programmes (FPs), co-patent networks and co …

have to evaluate the network structure of the resulting R&D network on a regular basis. Using both descriptive statistics … and social network analysis, I investigate how the publicly funded R&D network in the German Bioeconomy has developed over … the R&D network in the German Bioeconomy has grown tremendously over time and thereby completely changed its initial …