networks of four selected regions are based on information on patent applicants and inventors. Count data regressions show … positive effects on innovation of both the total number of relations and of access to a larger knowledge base. However, when … some sort of public good to the innovation system. -- Innovator networks ; Gatekeeper ; Zero Iflated Generalised Poisson …

The article serves as an introduction to the empirical analysis of innovation or knowledge networks based on patent … data with a particular focus on regional networks. I provide a review of the literature of innovation networks and how it … connects to systemic approaches within the field of innovation studies. The SNA methodology is introduced by performing a …

This paper investigates the effect of related and unrelated variety on regional growth in West Germany. In particular …

cooperative invention and innovation. Applying this method to German patent data shows that there are significant differences in …This work deals with the determinants of cooperative invention and innovation within innovation systems. Several … proximity dimensions are used to identify the levels on which systemic innovation activities can be observed. To disentangle the …

We compare two leading regional innovation systems (RIS) in East Germany with two RIS in West Germany of about the same … easily be related to the structural properties of the respective innovation networks because divergent general economic … economic conditions as well as for the position of a region in its spatial environment. Focusing just on the respective region …

people in creative occupation in Germany. The population share of the creative class as well as of bohemians and artists is …, innovation, regional development …

example of the BioRegio contest, we explore cluster policy effects on local patent co-application and co-invention networks … observed from 1985 to 2013, in 13 German regions. We find that the initiative increases network size and innovation activities …

sector work. -- Knowledge transfer ; science ; entrepreneurship ; innovation ; commercialization …

The paper targets the relationship between growth of cooperation and later growth of innovation at the regional level …. Patent data for German regions and eleven subsequent years is used to identify collaborative activity as well as the … innovative output in each region. The results confirm to some extend previous expectations based on the assumption of an inverted …