Purpose – This paper aims at further developing and empirically examining the concept of knowledge‐sharing hostility. It seeks to analyze reasons for hoarding knowledge, reasons for rejecting external knowledge, and attitudes towards mistakes, as well as the influence of these factors on...

Discusses alternative mediating roles forscience parks in the science-industry relation, using data from two casestudies of science parks in Denmark and the United Kingdom. According to recentliterature on science parks, science parks tend to fail in both attracting anddeveloping high-tech...