We investigate how R&D networks impact regional innovation, considering alternative
connectivity structures based on co‐publications, co‐inventions and projects supported by …

The purpose of this study is to examine the link between collaboration and innovation.
Recent years have witnessed hype over the need for collaborations in the innovation …

In this paper, it is found that the co-inventors' and coauthors linkages and h-indexes highly
enhanced the flows of academic knowledge into industrial patents in South African firms …

This paper provides an original framework for the interpretation of innovative activity among
European regions according to traditional 'geographical'spillovers and 'relational'spillovers …

In this paper we investigate the role of brokers in the regional innovation network and its
influence on innovative and collaborative outcomes. For this purpose, we make use of data …

The question of why certain regions are more efficient in creating new knowledge is one of
the main research issues in Regional Science. In the recent past, inter-regional knowledge …

This article questions the nature of the foreign direct R&D investments in Central Europe. Do
the affiliates of the multinationals still undertake adaptive R&D? Have they recently engaged …

A number ofscholars consider innovations to emerge within a system through interactions
between different economic actors such as the state, public agencies, firms, public …

This paper evaluates the economic advantages and disadvantages of the Eastern
expansion of the European Union for old and new EU member states, and introduces …

In this paper we raise the question whether knowledge transferred from long distances via
research networks can somehow compensate lagging regions in Central and Eastern …