There is a growing consensus that high impact innovation requires diverse knowledge access and cohesive groupwork at the same time; however, the role of social and collaboration networks in this phenomenon is still underexplored. In this paper we construct a weighted and time-decayed co-inventor...

Knowledge networks are important to understand learning in industry clusters but surprisingly little is known about what drives the formation, persistence and dissolution of ties. Applying stochastic actor-oriented models on longitudinal relational data from a mature cluster in a medium-tech...

A tanulmány két területet, a természettudományos és technológiai (TéT) oktatást, valamint az idegen nyelvek oktatását vizsgálva annak bemutatására törekszik, hogy az innovációk bonyolult kontextusa és a tudásáramlás mennyire lényegesen hatnak, illetve hathatnak az...

Ebben a tanulmányban a külföldi tulajdonú vállalatok és az import szerepét vizsgáljuk 75 hazai kistérség feldolgozóipari exportszerkezetének időbeli változásában 2000 és 2011 között. Az egyes külkereskedelmi termékek előállításához szükséges képességbázis...

This paper investigates the role of extra-regional capabilities in regional economic development in a Central and Eastern European context.This is done by analysing the association between the related variety of manufacturing import and export of domestic- and foreign-owned firms on the one...

The urban–rural divide is increasing in modern societies calling for geographical extensions of social influence modelling. Improved understanding of innovation diffusion across locations and through social connections can provide us with new insights into the spread of information,...

Millions commute to work every day in cities and interact with colleagues, partners, friends, and strangers. Commuting facilitates the mixing of people from distant and diverse neighborhoods, but whether this has an imprint on social inclusion or instead, connections remain assortative is less...

The co-editor networks of academic journals are generally examined at the journal level. This paper investigates the geographies of the global co-editor network in oncology through the lens of cities. After using different network methods to analyze the global co-editor network, we found that...

Many countries have secured larger quantities of COVID-19 vaccines than their population is willing to take. The abundance and the large variety of vaccines created not only an unprecedented intensity of vaccine related public discourse, but also a historical moment to understand vaccine...

Social networks play a fundamental role in the diffusion of innovation through peers’ influence on adoption. Thus, network position including a wide range of network centrality measures has been used to describe individuals’ affinity to adopt an innovation and their ability to propagate...