Network economics is a new, rapidly developing field. The book assesses networks as a complement to pure market relations and studies innovation networks and strategic alliances among innovative corporations. The book presents econometric methods of barrier and network analysis, including communication and trade patterns.

1. Patterns of a Network Economy—An Introduction.- I: ECONOMIC NETWORKS AND THE NETWORK ECONOMY.- 2. Demand Revealing and Knowledge Differentiation Through Network Evolution.- 3. Innovation Networks and Territorial Dynamics: A Tentative Typology.- 4. Lean Timing: Interdependencies Between Logistics, Scope, Locus and Development.- 5. Trading Local Autonomy for Economic Efficiency or the Faustian Bargain of Choice at the Close of the Twentieth Century: The Case of Globalized Financial and Property Markets.- 6. The Evolutionary Network Economy: Historical Parallels from Europe and Japan.- 7. State Market Networks in Japan: The Case of Industrial Policy.- II: TRADE AND PRODUCTION NETWORKS.- 8. Domestic Demand, Learning and Comparative Advantage.- 9. Revealing Network Properties of Sweden’s Trade with Europe.- 10. Regional Integration as a Vehicle for Microeconomic Disintegration: Some Macroeconomic Implications of the Reorganization of Firms.- 11. From Trade Flows to Corporate Networks.- 12. Measuring Horizontal Inter-Industrial Linkages.- III: KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORKS.- 13. From Knowledge and Technology Networks to Network Technology.- 14. Contact Decision Behaviour in a Knowledge Context: A Discrete Choice Modelling Approach Using Stated Preference Data.- 15. A Dynamic Input-Output Model with Endogenous Technical Change.- 16. Networks for Process Innovation by Firms: Conjectures from Observations in Three Countries.- 17. New Technology and Regional Development in the European Snowbelt Towards a New Emerging Network?.- 18. Non-Linear Dynamic Economic Structure: Infrastructure and Knowledge in a Two-Sector Growth Model.- Authors’ Index.

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