Competitiveness and growth in the knowledge-based economy are directly linked both to the development of local innovation capacity and connectivity to global resources. Clusters and networks are emerging as significant tools to promote regional development, foster SME growth, reduce spatial and social inequalities, and to activate, diffuse and expand locally generated knowledge. The present wor...

It has been argued that collaborative and associative forms of governance can enhance the economic competitiveness of cities and regions. Institutionalist approaches to urban and regional economic development have been particularly influential in emphasising the potential role that collaboration between firms, governance agencies, labour and supporting institutions can play in enabling communit...

Based on the description and comparison of the regional distribution of China and the U.S. R & D funding, this paper found that the level of economic development and R & D Investment Intensity has a strong positive correlation, identified the main factors of influencing the geographical distribution of the R & D funding, Similarities and differences in the two countries, and described the progr...

Today, innovation systems are being elaborated in ever-wider areas of national space-economies. Of particular interest is the growth of academic study and practical policy towards assisting formation of regional innovation systems. Over 100 of these empirical studies have been documented worldwide and in the EU over 100 regional innovation strategies were implemented in the past decade. But new...

In the context of an ever increasing complexity in ATM this paper proposes an automated assessment of new procedures and concepts and the impact into global and specific airspace via a simulated Air Traffic (ATM) environment. To this purpose, t the development of a complex system (system of systems) to analyse the effect of Wake Vortices to trailing aircrafts in the different flight phases. Thi...

Networks of organizations can improve the competitiveness of their member companies. Over the past years, the IS group of the University of Siegen has performed a series of research activities to foster networking among companies in the Siegen-Wittgenstein region. Our research covers a variety of activities such as: networking events, internship programs and joint research projects together wit...

The ability and desire to access knowledge and to be able to learn and put knowledge to work is central to regional economic development and for globalization to be a force for drawing the world together. This chapter presents the logic, conceptual framework, and key elements for leveraging codified knowledge and tacit know-how through Internet and web-based networks and face-to-face communicat...