of the agreement form an information network. The network's members optimally specialize based on their opportunities in … particular aspects of the technology or in expanding or managing the network. Endogenously there are incentives to standardize on … designs and descriptions of the technology. A tinkerer in the network who sees an opportunity to produce a profitable product …

organisation. However, the access to knowledge is not possible but through networks. In the knowledge networks, the generation of … some specific effects (of network) initiates processes of positive feedback, meaning that any initial difference in the … conditions of the market is amplified in time. It is the main cause of the fact that the diffusion of knowledge is subject to …

This paper surveys the literature and develops a framework for research into the integration of distributed knowledge … work (DKW). Knowledge work is considered to be “distributed” whenever key decisions for execution of the project cut across … recent years is well documented. Nonetheless, research into maintaining the coherence of a distributed knowledge work project …

should be nowadays replaced with a network-oriented view. Closer insight into the concept of systemic risk can refer to the … have disastrous effects and cause extreme damage as the number of network nodes goes to infinity. Strongly interconnected …

.g. geographical distance between regions). ERGMs represent a new set of network analysis techniques that have been developed in recent … determinants at the structural network level while still only requiring cross-sectional network data. The usefulness of ERGMs is … illustrated by an empirical study on the structure of the cross-regional R and D collaboration network of the German chemical …

network may influence knowledge persistence over time. In a final step, we assess how persistent knowledge as well as the … 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 …

structure of a network may influence knowledge persistence over time. In a final step, we assessed how persistent knowledge as … considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimated the persistence of knowledge in the inventor networks of nine … German regions using alternative assumptions about knowledge transfer. Based on these estimates, we analyzed how the size and …