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9780415334808

Technological Communities and Networks: Triggers and Drivers for Innovation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415334808

  • ISBN10:

    0415334802

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-06-11
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This text links business literature with social and historical construction of technology networks, using case studies from Europe and the US.

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. xi
List of graphsp. xiii
List of tablesp. xv
List of abbreviations and acronymsp. xvii
Prologue and acknowledgementsp. xix
Introductionp. 1
Communities as the social locus of knowledge-intensive technological practicep. 14
Collaboration networks as the social locus of knowledge-intensive technological innovationp. 33
Ptolemaic views of personal networks in cross-national innovationp. 51
An astronomer's view of the origins of a national GIS communityp. 91
A regional semiconductor community and academic entrepreneurship in Silicon Valleyp. 130
Technological communities and networks: new frontiers for knowledge-intensive innovationp. 184
SNA concepts and metricsp. 200
Glossary of SNA terminologyp. 203
Referencesp. 205
Author indexp. 219
Subject indexp. 223
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