Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/111905 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers on Innovation and Space No. 09.14
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Geography, Marburg
Abstract: 
While interactive learning and inter-organisational relations are fundamental building blocks in RIS theory, the framework is rarely related to investigations of regional knowledge network structures, because in RIS literature relational structures and interaction networks are discussed in a rather fuzzy and generic manner with the ‘network term’ often being used rather metaphorically. This paper contributes to the literature by discussing theoretical arguments about interactions and knowledge exchange relations in the RIS literature from the perspective of social network analysis. More precise, it links network theoretical concepts and insights to the well-known classification of RIS types by Cooke (2004). We thereby exemplarily show how the RIS literature and the literature on regional knowledge networks can benefit from considering insights of the respective other.
Subjects: 
regional innovation system
network analysis
SNA
RIS
JEL: 
O18
O33
R11
R12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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