Collaboration has been enacted as a core strategy by both the government and nongovernment sectors to address many of … the intractable issues confronting contemporary society. The cult of collaboration has become so pervasive that it is now … an elastic term referring generally to any form of ‘working together’. The lack of specificity about collaboration and …

produces research of higher quality. However, the spatial distribution of academic networks and innovative networks are not … uniform. Despite overwhelming evidence on the benefits of collaboration, patent data from 1994-2001 in Sweden demonstrate that … innovation networks are not very common. In addition, the pattern of innovative networks is very fragmented. Our results indicate …