"This book explores the latest innovations in software-defined networking and network functions virtualization. It provides methods on how to improve understanding of the strategic role of trust at different levels of the information and knowledge society, trust at the level of the global...

We investigate the stability of cooperative relationships between inventors and consequences for the characteristics and patent productivity of the respective regional innovation systems (RIS). The empirical analysis is for nine German regions over a period of 15 years. We find a rather high...