Chapter 1 The Networked Nature of R&D in a Spatial Context

Chapter 2 Network Formation and Geography: Modelling Approaches, Underlying Conceptions, Recent and Promising Extensions

Chapter 3 Recent Developments of Complex Network Analysis in Spatial Planning

Chapter 4 Determinants of Cross-Regional R&D Collaboration Networks: An Application of Exponential Random Graph Models

Chapter 5 A Novel Comprehensive Index of Network Position and Node Characteristics in Knowledge Networks: Ego Network Quality

Chapter 6 Network Autocorrelation and Spatial Filtering

Chapter 7 Assortativity and Hierarchy in Localized R&D Collaboration Networks

Chapter 8 Observing Integration Processes in European R&D Networks: A Comparative Spatial Interaction Approach Using Project Based R&D Networks and Co-patent Networks

Chapter 9 The Geography of Networks and R&D Collaborations

Chapter 10 Determinants of International R&D Activities: Evidence from a Gravity Model

Chapter 11 Joint Knowledge Production in European R&D Networks: Results from a Discrete Choice Modeling Perspective

Chapter 12 Multilateral R&D Collaboration: An ERGM Application on Biotechnology

Chapter 13 The Structure and Geography of Collaboration Networks in the European GNSS Industry

Chapter 14 Proximity and Stratification in European Scientific Research Collaboration Networks: A Policy Perspective

Chapter 15 The Embeddedness of Regions in R&D Collaboration Networks of the EU Framework Programmes

Chapter 16 Local Buzz Versus Global Pipelines and the Inventive Productivity of US Cities

Chapter 17 Research Collaboration and Regional Knowledge Production in Europe

Chapter 18 Policy Induced Innovation Networks: The Case of the German “Leading-Edge Cluster Competition”

Chapter 19 The Geography of Networks and R&D Collaborations

Chapter 20 Synopsis and Outlook