technological developments makes firms depend on innovation and, in the process, develop dense networks of relationships, making … collaboration an essential requisite for innovation. Thus, collaboration develops based on complex social networks from which … innovation emerges. From this perspective, collaboration takes a systematic approach, where social relationships are crucial …

international collaboration on an innovation system: the domestic one, the foreign one and the global one. The mutual information … innovation system is more integrated, whereas the West African one is less integrated than that of their partners. Results also …

Local innovation refers to the dynamics of IK - the knowledge that grows within a social group, incorporating learning … of thinking and doing. Local innovation is the process through which individuals or groups discover or develop new and …