This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems … influence of networks and local institutions. Significantly, they also introduce several new approaches to regional innovation … cooperation, networks and institutions, and their role in the development of local systems of innovation. The combination of …

. The latest research in collaboration, processes and evaluation of cooperation, and industrial and research networks, is …-firm and inter-institutional collaboration: the theory of transaction costs and contracts, evolutionary theory, and the …