Over recent years, the topic of innovation has received growing attention from urban and
regional analysts. Much of the recent growth in interest in this issue has arisen in part out of …

It has been gratifying to discover over the last few years that network ideas have evoked a
great deal of interest from practitioners as well as academics. One reason for this is that they …

Network cooperation among firms in the presence of rapid processes of innovation and
external turbulence is emerging as a new organisational paradigm. This paper utilises a …

For a long time the concept of networks has been used in engineering for the management
of complex systems, in particular in communications and transport. In the 1960 and 1970s …

Abstract Changes in the environment for international business activities have facilitated
more open networked formations, both within and between firms. The spread of more open …

Purpose–As developed countries experience a decline of manufacturing industries, national
governments increasingly turn to innovation‐based cluster initiatives to secure the long‐term …

Abstract S teiner M. and P loder M. Structure and strategy within heterogeneity: multiple
dimensions of regional networking, Regional Studies. Clusters are highly differentiated …

The past twenty years have seen a shift in the economic policies pursued in many countries.
Networks and networking have become buzz words in business, academe, and regional …

The role of networks in innovation processes has become a key research area in the field of
innovation studies over the last decade and a half (Freeman, 1991; Hagedoorn, 2002; …

This paper will first summarise some key findings of empirical research in the 1960s on the
role of external sources of scientific, technical and market information in successful …