Innovation networks and clusters the knowledge backbone

Conceptualising innovation networks and clusters / Abdelillah Hamdouch -- Networking innovation and intellectual property rights : the enterprise's knowledge capital / Blandine Laperche -- Guanxi and the business environment in China : an innovative network as a "process of a knowledge-based economy" / Francis Munier and Cao Huan -- The dynamics between plural and network-based entrepreneurship in small high-tech firms / Thierry Burger Helmchen -- The local basis of innovation and growth processes / Maryann P. Feldman -- The innovative milieu as the driving force of entrepreneurship / Sophie Boutillier and Dimitri Uzunidis -- Biotechnology and nanotechnology innovation networks in Canadian clusters / Katherine Beaudry and Andrea Schiffaeurova -- Identifying clusters in the Puget sound region / Paul Sommers and William B. Beyers.