Over the last decade, the research in the field of technology and innovation has progressed
towards the development of the notion of an 'ecosystem'that lays within the idea that …

This article documents a pilot study of the social networks of faculty, staff, and students at the
Illinois Tech (IIT), an urban technical university located in Chicago. The focus of our study is …

Universities can contribute to knowledge-based regional development not only in their home
region but also in other regions. In a number of countries, universities have established …

There is broad consensus that universities play a key role as knowledge platform in regional
economic development. This book exactly picks up this line of thought and explores the role …

The literature suggests that the success of innovation clusters is based on personal
networks that connect members of scientific, educational, and business organizations …

This paper examines the EU-funded research networks formed in three emerging areas of
the information and communication technologies field. Social network analysis is employed …

Several studies have pointed out that innovation-based competitiveness does not result from
a single economic agent but from a complex process in which several geographically …

A 'social turn'in economic geography enriches our understanding of process fields by
connecting them to this heuristic perspective. Collective innovation is one such process field …

This paper explores the micro-dynamics of relationship formation and development in the
university-industry context using a social capital perspective. The aim is to explore whether …

This paper builds on social network theory to understand technological development. Based
on the empirical evidence of 367 research organisations in plant biotechnology over a …