In this paper we empirically analyze the effects of collaboration in innovation with universities on the firm …'s innovative performance. Using data from the Technological Innovation Panel dataset (PITEC for its acronym in Spanish) we have … additionalities, while subcontracting specific R&D activities to universities do not seem to affect the firm's innovative performance …

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … characterized by a solid economic performance despite a low-technology industrial structure. Particular emphasis is placed on the … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither …

methodological tools assessing network characteristics at the dyadic level are lacking for aggregated networks (such as the network … knowledge flows. To do so we first define a new measure to assess 'network proximity' at the level of the regional dyad, based … European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom). The studied network is then composed of all the …

Scientific collaboration, in most cases, is seen a joint action on a global scale that involves researchers from not … just one region or one country but instead forming an international network of researchers. This type of epistemic … technologies contributed to flatten the world for intense, yet spatially distant collaboration. Based on the large scale analysis …

strategies (Podolny & Page, 1998). Knowledge sharing and also collaboration are dependent on an organizations' social network and …Organizations want to have access to each other's resources and so they establish different forms of collaboration … the proximity within this network. A central element in the theory of clustering is the idea that physical clustering of …

different R&D collaboration networks across Europe. These networks cover different types of knowledge creation, namely co … European R&D - one of the main pillars of the EU Science Technology and Innovation (STI) policy - refers to the harmonization … construction of the three dependent variables that describe collaboration intensities between all region pairs in the three …