Public Research in Regional Networks of Innovators: A Comparative Study of Four East-German Regions

Holger Graf and Tobias Henning

Chapter Chapter 6 in Entrepreneurship and Culture, 2010, pp 97-128 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Universities and public research organizations are said to be integrative and essential elements of a functioning innovation system. We analyze four East German regional networks of innovators and investigate the characteristic role of public research within these systems by applying methods of social network analysis. Our results show that universities and non-university institutions of public research are key actors in all regional networks of innovators. Higher centrality of public research compared to private actors may be due to the fact that universities are explicitly designed to give away their knowledge and increasingly need to raise external funds.

Keywords: Public Research; Patent Application; Social Network Analysis; Private Firm; Betweenness Centrality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87910-7_6

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