Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster context. These clusters are usually conceived as local agglomerations. In this paper it will be argued that they are an important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of...

This paper explores the drivers of inter-firm R&D collaborations in a particular type of innovation network, the technological districts created in Italy under a specific public policy to promote innovation. The empirical analysis used an original database containing information on research...

Die Studie analysiert Innovationseffekte der Automobilindustrie aus regionaler Sicht und liefert Mithilfe der Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse eine Vergleichsperspektive für ausgewählte europäische Cluster bezogen auf die Wissensübertragung und Innovationsdynamik und Einbettung der forschenden...