The debate on regional innovation potentials has concentrated in recent times upon the topic of regional knowledge networking. This article presents the findings of the first phase of a detailed network analysis of the cooperation relations between scientific institutions and firms in the...

Since the early 1990s, regional networks have received a lot of academic and political attention as vehicles for knowledge-based economic development. However, this powerful rhetoric has been accompanied by surprisingly little concrete analysis. Economic geography is only recently waking up to...

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Beschäftigungsentwicklung in der Region Hannover für den Zeitraum 1999 bis 2006 und stellt sie zwölf weiteren deutschen Verdichtungsräumen gegenüber. Unter Verwendung des Betriebs-Historik-Panels des Institutes für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung...