Galaso, Pablo

Numerous studies in management, sociology, and economics have documented that the architecture of collaboration networks affects the innovation performance of individuals, firms, and regions.

The relationship between collaboration, geography and innovation has been analysed in economic geography. However, little is known from a social‐network perspective about whether different geographical levels of embeddedness may determine the way networks affect innovation. To address this issue, we compare the effects of regional vs. country‐level Spanish networks on future patenting. If we consider the country‐wide network, our statistical analysis reproduces the findings of the previous literature. However, negative effects prevail at the regional level, while the influence seems to be rather positive at the country level. We thus conclude that the embeddedness at different geographical scales exerts differing influence on innovation.

This article studies the transnational corporations’ ownership and investment relationships between countries. Using Thomson Reuters SDC Platinum database on mergers and acquisitions and social network analysis techniques, the paper analyzes the international mergers and acquisitions network (IMAN), where vertices are 211 countries and edges represent the flow of international mergers and acquisitions between them. After elaborating the IMAN, it estimates the fitness of Borgatti and Everett (2000) core-periphery model to the network. Furthermore, it analyzes the fitness evolution between 1999 and 2013 and identifies core, semi-periphery and periphery countries. Results confirm the existence of a sharp and persistent coreperiphery structure in the relations between countries. The core is made of only 15 nations that are almost completely interconnected among them and responsible for most of investments in transnational corporations. 41 semi-peripheral countries are relatively well connected while achieving about one fourth of investments. Finally, the remaining 155 nations in the periphery are mostly disconnected among them and only receive marginal investments from the core and semi-periphery nations. These results reveal that the ownership and control of the means of production at the global level is driven by polarized and unequal relationships between countries.

El estudio tiene por finalidad elaborar una guía de desarrollo productivo y competitivo del departamento Central del Paraguay y sus distritos, con énfasis en la promoción de las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas y en la generación de empleo. Se buscó determinar cuáles son los factores que obstaculizan o favorecen las capacidades de desarrollo departamental y distrital, que sirvan de insumo para planificar y establecer lineamientos estratégicos de políticas para el desarrollo.

El presente artículo analiza la evolución reciente del sistema español de innovación en comparación con el de los principales países de su entorno.

Idioma: Español

Idioma: Inglés

Idioma: Inglés

En este artículo se analiza la noción de región transfronteriza. En general se habla del desarrollo local de las ciudades fronterizas, desestimando la dimensión de la comunicación e interdependencia entre centros poblados, en general urbanos, en múltiples aspectos, tanto sociales y culturales, como económicos, ambientales y políticos. Si aceptamos, desde la mirada del desarrollo local, que el concepto de territorio se define como una construcción social y política del espacio geográfico por la acción de sus habitantes y su relación con el entorno, debemos poner especial atención a la situación de centros fronterizos que han transformado los límites políticos de los Estados nación, generando figuras como la región que en el caso uruguayo no tienen cabida legal.

Social policy networks consisting of diverse and independent organizations are a popular instrument to implement policy at community level. However, little is known about the way in which different types of organizations collaborate in these networks and if these interactions depend on the nature of their funding (public/private) and/or their remit of activity. These characteristics have implications on the type of resources organizations might depend on and, therefore, on their participation in networks. The type of the links established in these interorganizational arrangements varies in terms of the resources that organizations depend on to address power imbalances.