Notwithstanding a recent upsurge in interest in knowledge intermediaries and their roles in innovation and … entrepreneurial ecosystems literature, this paper investigates the potentials of cooperation between different knowledge … intermediaries. Therefore, we analyze the alignment of financial, knowledge, market and network resources in politically funded …

literature. Specifically, we suggest that characteristics of the knowledge contained in a firm's inter-organizational network and … circulating among members. Characteristics of a firm's direct contacts describe its knowledge embeddedness and determine its … access to more fine-grained (tacit, complex) knowledge. We propose that the context (e.g. the difficulty of learning from …