In today?s global economy innovation is presented as the key to economic development and sustainability. Only through … innovation can companies ensure their progress and their place in the market and can become strong enough to survive and prosper …. By creating a favourable environment for innovation, countries and regions can facilitate their industries and companies …

multinational and other firm level networks using the specialistcontext of Formula 1 motor over a fifty nine year period. We suggest …

Networks are having a profound impact on the way society is organised at the local, national and international level …. Networks are not ‘business as usual’. The defining feature of networks and a key indicator for their success is the strength … and quality of the interactions between members. This relational power of networks provides the mechanism to bring …

delivery. Among these, governance networks have become a widespread mechanism for planning and delivering infrastructure …. However, despite substantial public investments in road infrastructure that are made through governance networks, little is …. Although governance networks undertake management functions, it is unclear what drives stakeholder engagement within this …

integration of network governance in such projects in order to perform successfully. Management recommendations are generated by … in projects. The ability of an organization to develop networks in short time, to form and to manage them becomes thus an …

The debate about the governance of complex systems of production represents a rich branchof the literature of applied …

In the past two decades, clusters have received widespread attention as an instrument for enabling firms to overcome … throughout time. In the 21st century a lot of work has been done towards the system approach of clusters and the policies that … organizational structure that will allow them to support the growth and spread of innovation by, for example, participating in a …

A common theory in current innovation literature, and one that this paper supports, is that spatially defined industry … clusters provide incubation for ‘competitive advantage’. It is the heightened interaction between ‘actors’, the intense … vertical integration and concentration of resources that creates enclaves of innovation within which activity is leveraged in …

cluster as opposed to those in non-cluster environments. The general claim is that clusters provide highly productive …