Access to a pool of talented employees is an important element of entrepreneurial firms'
ability to build innovative capabilities. Through an empirical examination of two European …

262 INSTITUTIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF HIGH-TECH REGIONS clusters. But what types
of network relations are most critical? Do informal personal ties and occupational relations …

Regional technology clusters are an important source of economic development, yet in
biotechnology few successful clusters exist. Previous research links successful clusters to …

A recursive analysis of network and institutional evolution is offered to account for the
decentralized structure of the commercial field of the life sciences. Four alternative logics of …

Differences in growth patterns between regional clusters are often attributed to the extent to
which they benefit from agglomeration, defined as the advantages that derive from being …

abstract Careers are central to our understanding of the knowledge creation dynamics of
network organizations. Based on the example of R&D project collaboration between firms …

We examine the evolution of biotechnology clusters in Germany between 1996 and 2003,
paying particular attention to their composition in terms of venture capital, basic science …

Inter-organizational alliances and the networks they generate have been a central topic in
organization theory over the last decade. However, network analyses per se have been …

Regional or local clusters of enterprises of a certain industry or value chain are increasingly
regarded as protagonists of economic growth. Developments like the emergence of Silicon …

The paper studies the network of Canadian biotechnology co-inventors and compares the
structure of the links between inventors within, and outside of, the cluster. Two types of …