Various forms of interaction during the process of research and innovation constitute a global network of knowledge … network to participate in global knowledge ows and to increase success in idea generation, invention and innovation. In this … chapter, we review the literature on two of the most important channels of international knowledge diffusion in the field of …

considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimate the persistence of knowledge in regional inventor networks … using alternative assumptions about knowledge transfer. Based on these estimates we analyze how the size and structure of a … network may influence knowledge persistence over time. In a final step, we assess how persistent knowledge as well as the …

This paper investigates the embeddedness of European regions in different types of inter-regional knowledge networks … dimension in regional knowledge production activities. The results reveal conspicuous differences between the knowledge networks … spill-over effects of region-external factors on centrality in the co-publication network. Thus, the distinctive knowledge …

We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education … different indicators for these types of knowledge, the strongest effects are found for the number of professors, followed by the … the regional knowledge stock than the number of students that is most important for the emergence of innovative stat-ups. …

and corporate patents, we find that boundary-spanning knowledge production with academic inventors raises the innovative … involvement helps inventor teams to profit from spatially distant knowledge sources. …

Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing knowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West … the development of Penang as an increasingly important Asian knowledge hub. One of the highlighted results of our paper …

The concept of Bridging Technologies (BTs) refers to technologies which are important for the regional knowledge base … patenting regions are not necessarily the ones that embed most new technologies in their Knowledge Space (KS). Our findings …

This paper investigates the embeddedness of European regions in different types of inter-regional knowledge networks … dimension in regional knowledge production activities. The results reveal conspicuous differences between the knowledge networks … spillover effects of region-external factors on centrality in the co-publication network. Thus, the distinctive knowledge …