Schröder, Christian - In: International Economics and Economic Policy 11 (2014) 1, pp. 197-230
agglomeration of companies, i.e. cluster formation, will also lead to increased local networking, i.e. also to cooperations between … companies or between company and research institutes in the innovation process. A social network analysis of the two German ICT … regions performed with patent data was able to show that cluster formation coincides with a dynamic increase of cooperations …