Intraregionale Kooperationsbeziehungen zwischen privaten Unternehmen spielen eine bedeutende Rolle für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung einer Region. Das Ausmaß der intraregionalen Kooperationsbeziehungen kann auch als Indikator für die wirtschaftliche Integration einer Region oder von...

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing new. What is new is studying how this relationship fares in latecomer economic contexts such as Nigeria, and that is the focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation...

We explore the evolution of the structure and performance of a social network in a population of individuals who search for local optima in diverse and dynamic task environments. Individuals choose whether to innovate or imitate and, in the latter case, from whom to learn. The probabilities of...

This paper empirically explores relations between network positions in knowledge networks andtrust. In social network theory the closure argument and the gossip argument describe thisrelation. These two arguments do not distinguish between different dimensions of trust. In thispaper we estimate...