third partners. We propose a micro perspective to understand how endogenous network effects, cognitive proximity of actors … and their interplay influence the evolutionary process of network formation in clusters. …

-publication networks. Embeddedness refers to the network positioning of regions captured in terms of social network analytic (SNA …) centrality measures. The objective is to estimate how region-internal and region-external factors influence network embeddedness … in the distinct network types, in order to identify differences in their driving factors at the regional level. In our …

We propose a random network model incorporating heterogeneity of agents and a continuous notion of homophily. Unlike … new employee via the social network. …