Geography of Knowledge-based Collaboration in a Post-communist Country: Specific Experience or Generalized Pattern?
2010
Abstract
This article addresses the role of geographical proximity for knowledge and innovation collaboration patients in the Czech Republic and assesses the factors which determine the spatial distribution of innovation co-operation. The article uses alternative sources empirical data to map collaboration patients of innovating companies, research institutes and universities and to find basic regularities.
By this, the article aims to fill in the gap in current research focused rather on most advanced regions by adding new knowledge from a transformation, post-communist economy