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...

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...

Based on previous studies of EU-subsidized research joint ventures, R&D collaboration networks, and aerospace industry, this work raises and tests a set of hypotheses in order to check whether the European aerospace research area shows a scale-free topology. Its main focus concerns the...

According to the dominant literature, spatial proximity matters for successful inter-firm collaboration for innovation and more generally for knowledge transfer. This assumption is based on the argument that the tacit character of complex knowledge makes repetitive face-to-face interactions and...