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 …

just one region or one country but instead forming an international network of researchers. This type of epistemic …

firm productivity does not adequately address firm and individual level heterogeneity. Some issues that are not tackled are … expected to have the greatest impact on firm's productivity. Second, distant job matches might be a selective sample: greater … productivity levels of local and nonlocal employees. I employ the framework of Simon and Warner [Journal of Labor Economics, 10 …

-publication networks. Embeddedness refers to the network positioning of regions captured in terms of social network analytic (SNA …) centrality measures. The objective is to estimate how region-internal and region-external factors influence network embeddedness … in the distinct network types, in order to identify differences in their driving factors at the regional level. In our …