The substantial acknowledgement of university–industry (U–I) collaborations as promotor of
economic progress, innovativeness and competitiveness fostered a continuous research …

Frenken K., Cefis E. and Stam E. Industrial dynamics and clusters: a survey, Regional
Studies. This paper reviews the literature on clusters and their effects on the entry, exit and …

Transformer, an attention-based encoder–decoder model, has already revolutionized the
field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some …

Balland P.-A., Boschma R. and Frenken K. Proximity and innovation: from statics to
dynamics, Regional Studies. Despite theoretical and empirical advances, the proximity …

There is an increasing interest in the analysis of how universities should maximise their
specific regional contribution alongside their traditional teaching and research goals …

This paper addresses the 'network'and 'open innovation'paradigms by seeking to examine
the factors associated with structural positioning within university–industry networks …

Abstract Knowledge spillovers across economic agents are central to the process of
technological innovation. Yet, the mechanisms by which spillovers travel and manifest as …

In rapidly changing regional economies, less innovative European regions (henceforth
referred to as lagging-behind regions) must actively work to reduce the gap between them …

Although prior research has highlighted the importance of academic collaborations in
enhancing firms' innovation performance, it has largely focused on developed countries. As …

Following last decade's programmatic papers on Evolutionary Economic Geography, we
report on recent empirical advances and how this empirical work can be positioned vis-à-vis …