IDs are regional hyper-networks that survived the socioeconomic evolution of modern capitalism. The also promise to succeed in the coming post-Fordist development. Italian experience has shown that industrial districts are highly important, perform successfully, and are increasing their survival...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A knowledge-based view of inter-firm interlock coordination -- Chapter 3. Overview on the EU28 Aerospace Industry network and its neighbors -- Chapter 4. Network analysis of the ALL (merged) network -- Chapter 5. Inter-departmental coordination through...

In high-tech industrial clusters as the aerospace most collaborations for innovations are highly knowledge-specific and form a (relatively dense) knowledge network. With reference to the case of the aerospace industrial cluster of the Lazio Region, in this work we study the network dynamics of...

In this chapter we test the hypothesis that uneven links distributions and uneven absorptive capacity between an industrial cluster members provide some kind of competitive advantages. Through an agent-based model has been built and calibrated on real data taken from an aerospace industrial...

Do trading countries also collaborate in R&D? This is the question that, facing with a number of methodological problems, here it is dealt with. Studying and comparing the international trade network and the R&D collaboration network of European countries in the aerospace sector, social network...

In this chapter it is underlined that, though economics has systematically adopted network analysis much later than sociology, the development of network economics during last 15 years has been massive, alongside three main research streams: strategic formation network modeling, (mostly...