The value of social network analysis is critically dependent on the comprehensive and reliable identification of actors and their relationships. We compare regional knowledge networks based on different types of data sources, namely, co-patents, co-publications, and publicly subsidised...

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Das vorliegende Arbeitspapier beschreibt die verwendete Datengrundlage und erste empirische Ergebnisse zur Untersuchung des Einflusses eines Daten-Netzwerkbetriebs auf den Kooperationserfolg von Verbundgruppen. Eine detaillierte Dokumentation über Form und Ablauf der zugrundeliegenden...

Research cooperation between Somalia and Sweden began in 1982, but was interrupted in the early 1990s due to the civil war. As Somalia gradually starts the process of institution-building and shifting towards a federal system, the Swedish government is considering whether and in what form to...

"In order to understand collaborative research activity in the United States, it is important to understand the contextual environment in which firms pursue a collaborative research strategy. The U.S. environment for formal collaborative research was established through a number of policy...

The development of inventor networks is characterized by the addition of a significant number of new inventors, while a considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimate the persistence of knowledge in regional inventor networks using alternative assumptions about knowledge...