In high-tech industrial clusters as the aerospace most collaborations for innovations are highly knowledge-specific and form a (relatively dense) knowledge network. With reference to the case of the aerospace industrial cluster of the Lazio Region, in this work we study the network dynamics of...

In this chapter we test the hypothesis that uneven links distributions and uneven absorptive capacity between an industrial cluster members provide some kind of competitive advantages. Through an agent-based model has been built and calibrated on real data taken from an aerospace industrial...

According to the dominant literature, spatial proximity matters for successful inter-firm collaboration for innovation and more generally for knowledge transfer. This assumption is based on the argument that the tacit character of complex knowledge makes repetitive face-to-face interactions and...

In the behavioural and evolutionary perspectives it is usually supposed that firms’ performance depends significantly on their exploration activities, because they enlarge firms’ knowledge base. The analysis has been here focused on accessing external knowledge, that is acquiring and...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A knowledge-based view of inter-firm interlock coordination -- Chapter 3. Overview on the EU28 Aerospace Industry network and its neighbors -- Chapter 4. Network analysis of the ALL (merged) network -- Chapter 5. Inter-departmental coordination through...