The Network of Innovators in Jena: An Application of Social Network Analysis

Uwe Cantner and Holger Graf

No 04/2004, Jenaer Schriften zur Wirtschaftswissenschaft (Expired!) from Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, School of of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: We apply social network analysis methods to describe the evolution of the innovator network of Jena, Germany in the period from 1995 to 2001. We find this evolution to be directed towards an increasing focus on core competencies of the local innovation system. Further we analyze the network resulting from R&D cooperations and explain - by means of network regression techniques - that the job mobility of scientists and the technological overlap between the actors, rather than past cooperations, can best predict the resulting structure. We also observe an increasing importance of the university while the former "Kombinate" begin to lose their prominent role.

Keywords: Innovator Networks; Network Regression; Local Innovation Systems; R+D Cooperation; Research University (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L14 O31 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-02
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