The InnoRegio-program: a new way to promote regional innovation networks - empirical results of the complementary research -

Climate of trust, organization and network management

The climate of trust is used as an indicator for the networks’ internal cohesion. It was
presumed that marked cohesion between the participants would support the development of
the project. However, the opposite was instead found to be true: actors in networks that
started early and actors in networks that experienced initial problems rated the level of trust
in their network lower than actors in networks implemented at a later stage (Table 7).

However, the level of organization in the network seems to be of great importance. This was
judged to be better by the networks that began earlier than those that began later (Table 8).

Finally, while it appeared to be a well justified assumption that the quality of network
management also had a positive influence on project implementation, such a relationship
could not be confirmed by the data (Table 9).

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