The geography of networks and R&D collaborations, in particular the spatial dimension of interactions between organisations performing joint R&D, have attracted a burst of attention in the last decade, both in the scientific study of the networks and in the policy sector. The volume is intended to bring together a selection of articles providing novel theoretical and empirical insights into the geographical dynamics of such networks and R&D collaborations, using new, systematic data sources and employing cutting-edge spatial analysis and spatial econometric techniques. It comprises a section on analytic advances and methodology and two thematic sections on structure and spatial characteristics of R&D networks and the impact of R&D networks and policy implications. The edited volume provides a collection of high-level research contributions with an aim to contribute to the recent debate in economic geography and regional science on how the structure of formal and informal networks modifies and influences the spatial and temporal diffusion of knowledge.
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Part I Editorial Introduction |
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1 The Networked Nature of R&D in a Spatial Context |
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Part II Analytic Advances and Methodology |
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2 Network Formation and Geography: Modelling Approaches, Underlying Conceptions, Recent and Promising Extensions |
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3 Recent Developments of Complex Network Analysis in Spatial Planning |
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4 Determinants of Cross-Regional R&D Collaboration Networks: An Application of Exponential Random Graph Models |
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5 A Novel Comprehensive Index of Network Position and Node Characteristics in Knowledge Networks: Ego Network Quality |
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6 Network Autocorrelation and Spatial Filtering |
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7 Assortativity and Hierarchy in Localized R&D Collaboration Networks |
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Part III Structure and Spatial Characteristics of R&D Networks |
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8 Observing Integration Processes in European R&D Networks: A Comparative Spatial Interaction Approach Using Project Based R&D Networks and Co-patent Networks |
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131 | (20) |
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9 The Community Structure of European R&D Collaboration |
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10 Determinants of International R&D Activities: Evidence from a Gravity Model |
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175 | (26) |
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11 Joint Knowledge Production in European R&D Networks: Results from a Discrete Choice Modeling Perspective |
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201 | (20) |
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12 Multilateral R&D Collaboration: An ERGM Application on Biotechnology |
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13 The Structure and Geography of Collaboration Networks in the European GNSS Industry |
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Part IV Impact of R&D Networks and Policy Implications |
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14 Proximity and Stratification in European Scientific Research Collaboration Networks: A Policy Perspective |
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263 | (16) |
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15 The Embeddedness of Regions in R&D Collaboration Networks of the EU Framework Programmes |
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16 Local Buzz Versus Global Pipelines and the Inventive Productivity of US Cities |
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299 | (18) |
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17 Research Collaboration and Regional Knowledge Production in Europe |
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317 | (18) |
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18 Policy Induced Innovation Networks: The Case of the German "Leading-Edge Cluster Competition" |
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19 Effects of Competence Centres on Regional Knowledge Production: An Agent-Based Simulation of the Vienna Life Sciences Innovation System |
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353 | (22) |
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Thomas Scherngell is researcher at the Foresight & Policy Development Department of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. He holds a venia docendi (habilitation) in Economic Geography and Regional Science at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He received his M.A. (2003) from the University of Vienna (Mag. phil.) and his PhD (2006) from the same university (Dr. rer. nat). Thomas Scherngell is an expert in economics of innovation and technological change, R&D networks as well as in regional science and spatial analysis. Over the past five years, his focus of research was on the geographical dimension of innovation, R&D collaborations and networks. In the recent past, he has been working on the empirical analysis of R&D networks in Europe, where he intensively analysed collaboration patterns for organisations participating in the European Framework Programmes (FPs). His works in this area are published in leading journals of the field, among them Regional Studies, Papers in Regional Science, the Annals of Regional Science, Geographical Analysis, Social Networks or the Journal of Economic Geography.
