The discussion on regional innovation systems emphasizes the duality of local and global links. While the former enable … diverse to their knowledge base. Our empirical analysis of 18 German regional innovation networks highlights the importance of … role of gatekeepers of knowledgeʺ. -- Regional systems of innovation ; innovation networks ; knowledge broker ; gatekeeper …

highly central in the entire network while being densely connected among themselves. To identify the core, we compare the … the existence of a core in Germany's board and director network. Conditional on being a board member, it is very … monitoring ability. -- Board and director interlocks ; network core ; network formation ; market capitalization …

the average amount of peer contributions or by the number of peers, yields spillovers to the amount of individual …. Similarly, spillovers coming from the number of peers yield a positive effect of 0.17 per cent per article to 0.05 per cent for …

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 …