Because a city cannot be conceived of as an isolated system but is always part of a system
of cities (Berry 1964), interaction between cities is an essential component of the dynamics …

Recent changes in industrialised economies and their spatial transformation seem to be of a
fundamental and a long term nature. Some scholars argue that Fordism is transformed into …

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a systematic review of research linking the
networking of firms with their innovation and specify the different dimensions of previous …

The thesis of this paper-summarized in its title-is simple: The coordination of an innovative
endeavour almost always requires a network of independent organizations with different …

Real city systems in advanced countries have significantly departed from the abstract
Christallerian pattern of a nested hierarchy of centers and markets. The reduction in …

The clustering of innovative industry both demands and creates a highly skilled local labour
market. The growth of this agglomeration of labour, it has been argued, benefits both …

Drawing on a large database of publicly announced R&D alliances, we empirically
investigate the evolution of R&D networks and the process of alliance formation in several …

Industry networks are a currently popular variation on the old idea of industrial districts
(Grabher, 1993; Harrison, 1992). We denote as an industry network a set of organizations …

The paper discusses the ambiguity of the network concept. The ambiguity may be explained
partly by the interface between an economic competitive perspective and a social trust …

The Innovating Organization is a systematic, empirical study of the change in forms from
traditional multi-divisional hierarchies to flatter, less rigid networks. The rich array of data …