We examine the effects of urbanization and localization on four distinct types of innovation in manufacturing and … localization on different types of innovation. However, once we include firm fixed effects and distinguish between manufacturing … employment density. For the service sector, in contrast, we find adverse effects of localization on different kinds of innovation …

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation …

Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in … East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional networks. Besides the direct support of networks and innovation activities … development of networks or cluster was successful, this paper focuses on the investigation of regional economic development. Using …

We study the effects of a German national cluster policy on the structure of collaboration networks. The empirical … analysis is based on original data that was collected in fall 2011 and late summer 2013 with cluster actors (firms and public … initiating new cooperation between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. Newly formed linkages are to a …