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Innovation networks are a major source for acquiring new information and knowledge and thus for supporting innovation processes. Despite the many theoretical and empirical contributions to the explanation of networks, many questions still remain open. For example: How can networks, if they do not emerge by their own, be initiated? How can fragmentation in innovation systems be overcome? And how can networking experience from market economies be transferred to the emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe? By presenting a selectionof papers which address innovation networking from theoretical and political viewpoints, the book aims at giving answers to these questions.

Innovation Networks

Section I: Introduction to The Subject.- 1. Networks in Innovation Research and Innovation Policy - An Introduction.- 2. Innovation by Networking: An Economic Perspective.- Section II: Knowledge and Learning in Innovation Networks.- 3. Knowledge, Innovation Processes and Regions.- 4. Innovation Processes and the Role of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS).- 5. Institutions of Technological Infrastructure (ITI) and the Generation and Diffusion of Knowledge.- 6. Innovative Links between Industry and Research Institutes - How Important Are They for Firm Start Ups in the Metropolitan Regions of Barcelona, Vienna and Stockholm?.- Section III: Innovation Networks In Transition.- 7. Implementation of a Network Based Innovation Policy in Central and Eastern European Countries - Slovenia as an Example.- 8. Innovation Networking in a Transition Economy: Experiences from Slovenia.- 9. Integration through Industrial Networks in the Wider Europe: An Assessment Based on Survey of Research.- 10. East German Industrial Research: Improved Competitiveness through Innovative Networks.- 11. Innovation Networks and Regional Venture Capital Companies in Germany - Experiences for Central and Eastern European Countries.- Section IV: Innovation Networks And Regional Innovation Policy.- 12. Innovation, Interaction and Regional Development: Structural Characteristics of Regional Innovation Strategies.- 13. Innovation Networks and Industrial Research in the New Federal States: Perspectives of Economy and Structural Policy.- 14. Innovation Networks and Regional Policy in Europe.- List of Contributors.