inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …

It is argued in this paper that the nature of innovation networks can vary substantially with regard to the type of … knowledge that is critical for innovation. Subject to the knowledge base of an industry, networks between companies can differ … networks, followed by a theoretically informed discussion on differentiated knowledge bases and innovation networks, which is …

bases of organizations and knowledge phases of the innovation process are the critical factors in determining the nature of …