Cooperation in innovation processes has become crucial for the competitiveness of many firms. This paper focuses on technology-oriented East German firms and analyses details of their cooperation behaviour by studying the relationships between geographic and social proximity, the importance and...

In the literature there is a controversy about the relevance of the spatial dimension in innovation collaboration. We examine the link between the spatial composition of group members and group characteristics which are important for performing innovation projects. To this end, we introduce a...

The paper investigates the contribution of cooperative and non-cooperative R and D subsidies to firm growth. Of particular interest is hereby firms' embeddedness into subsidized cooperation networks. For the empirical analysis we utilize an unbalanced panel of 2.199 German manufacturing firms...

Spatial proximity is assumed in the literature to be a prerequisite and trigger for cooperation and, subsequently, innovation. This paper examines conceptually the role of proximity between actors for cooperation activities. Using theories and findings from social psychology and combining them...

Innovationsnetzwerke gelten heute als Schlüssel für eine langfristige und positive Entwicklung von Unternehmen und Regionen. Sowohl in der Wissenschaft als auch in der Politik sind diese Partnerverbünde darum ein vielbeachtetes Thema. Die vorliegende Arbeit geht bei der Untersuchung von fast...

This paper investigates the embeddedness of European regions in different types of inter-regional knowledge networks, namely project based R&D collaborations within the EU Framework Programmes (FPs), co-patent networks and co-publication networks. Embeddedness refers to the network positioning...