Preface -- Part I Background -- Chapter 1 Fundamental Issues in This Book -- Part II Topological Structure -- Chapter 2 Recognize the Trade Roles of Industrial Sectors -- Chapter 3 Probe the Industrial Linkages Reasonably and Effectively -- Chapter 4 Find the Vital Industrial Sectors and IO...

The question of the determinants of inter-regional knowledge flows has received a growing interest in the recent past. Particularly, the question of the relationship between geography and networks has been debated. Yet, at the inter-regional level, there is no study assessing the effect of...

The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the inventors. The residences of the inventors show different patterns in the two datasets. Furthermore, we analyze the spatial distance between inventors for patents invented in...

This paper studies the impact of collaboration on research output. First, we build a micro-founded model for scientific knowledge production, where collaboration between researchers is represented by a bipartite network. The equilibrium of the game incorporates both the complementarity effect...