Knowledge Creation Diffusion And Use In Innovation Networks And Knowledge Clusters

Author : Elias G. Carayannis,David Campbell
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114548139

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Knowledge Creation, Diffusion, and Use in Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters by Elias G. Carayannis,David Campbell Pdf

In the 21st century, intangible resources such as knowledge and social capital have become as necessary to the modern economy as coal, diamonds, and oil were to the past. This shift from product-focused to service-focused economies necessitates a drastic re-thinking of the ways in which we support the mission and business of economic development on a global, regional, and national scale. In order to effect and sustain a positive change, innovation and knowledge networks need to be connected to every aspect of life, from the private and domestic, to the corporate and the global. This book integrates a wide variety of perspectives and treatises on mutually adaptive and complementary processes of knowledge generation, diffusion, and transfer within organizations and industry, addressing both the what and how to questions of knowledge management in a conceptual as well as an applied manner. It should be of strong interest to science and technology policy makers, research and development managers, business decision makers, and students of innovation and knowledge dynamics alike.

Author : Harcourt Education
Publisher : Greenwood International
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 157000000X

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Knowledge Creation, Diffusion, and Use in Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters by Harcourt Education Pdf

Author : Riccardo Cappellin,Rüdiger Wink
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848449084

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International Knowledge and Innovation Networks by Riccardo Cappellin,Rüdiger Wink Pdf

This work is a new, valuable reference and tool for scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in knowledge, innovation, regional growth and competitiveness. Pier Paolo Patrucco, Italian Journal of Regional Science This book is remarkable for several reasons. It provides highly relevant empirical analysis into a fundamental but under-researched area, namely medium technology industries. It proposes a new theoretical approach which builds on cognitive economics to explain how innovation in these industries is generated by interactive learning. It develops important policy implications based on the concept of governance. In doing so, the authors of this book are able to successfully blend together micro to macro levels of analysis as well as regional and industrial economics with public policy. The book should be carefully read by economists and social scientists, policy makers and businessmen interested in innovation at the regional level. Luigi Orsenigo, University of Brescia and Bocconi University, Italy This book explores the distinct nature of innovation in medium technology industrial sectors which are the key to European international competitiveness and examines the recent changes of networks within regional clusters. The authors present best-practice management and regional strategies, and develop an original and coherent theoretical framework for the analysis of innovation processes called Territorial Knowledge Management . They concentrate on the territorial dimension and the cognitive economics approach, and go beyond the traditional focus on R&D in high-tech sectors. The pivotal role of intermediate institutions in the governance of modern co-ordinated market economies is also highlighted. Working towards defining new guidelines for creating networks of competence centers and removing barriers to the enlargement of knowledge and innovation networks in Europe, this book will prove an enlightening read for those with an interest in postgraduate level management and innovation studies. Management and policy-making practitioners at both the regional and European level will also find much to interest them.

Author : Elias G. Carayannis,Aris Kaloudis,Age Mariussen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848441286

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Diversity in the Knowledge Economy and Society by Elias G. Carayannis,Aris Kaloudis,Age Mariussen Pdf

The key message of this book is that heterogeneity should be seen as an intrinsic and indispensable element of knowledge systems. The authors address the concept of heterogeneity in a multi-disciplinary fashion, including perspectives from evolutionary economics and innovation system studies, and relate this approach to existing theories in a broad range of fields. The book postulates that one approach to such a re-conceptualization is what we call the Mode 3 system consisting of Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters for knowledge creation, diffusion and use. This is a multi-layered, multi-modal, multi-nodal and multi-lateral system, encompassing mutually and complementary reinforcing innovation networks and knowledge clusters consisting of human and intellectual capital, shaped by social capital and underpinned by financial capital. Diversity in the Knowledge Economy and Society will appeal to academics and researchers of innovation and science, knowledge management and economics.

Author : Elias G. Carayannis,David F.J. Campbell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1461420628

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Mode 3 Knowledge Production in Quadruple Helix Innovation Systems by Elias G. Carayannis,David F.J. Campbell Pdf

Developed and developing economies alike face increased resource scarcity and competitive rivalry. In this context, science and technology appear as an essential source of competitive and sustainable advantage at national and regional levels. However, the key determinant of their efficacy is the quality and quantity of entrepreneurship-enabled innovation that unlocks and captures the benefits of the science enterprise in the form of private, public or hybrid goods. Linking basic and applied research with the market, via technology transfer and commercialization mechanisms, including government-university-industry partnerships and capital investments, constitutes the essential trigger mechanism and driving force of sustainable competitive advantage and prosperity. In this volume, the authors define the terms and principles of knowledge creation, diffusion, and use, and establish a theoretical framework for their study. In particular, they focus on the “Quadruple Helix” model, through which government, academia, industry, and civil society are seen as key actors promoting a democratic approach to innovation through which strategy development and decision making are exposed to feedback from key stakeholders, resulting in socially accountable policies and practices.

Author : Manfred M. Fischer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540359814

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Innovation, Networks, and Knowledge Spillovers by Manfred M. Fischer Pdf

This volume covers the topic of innovation in three sections, first demonstrating that processes of innovation and technological change are spatially differentiated, second examining the increasing importance of knowledge creation and diffusion, and third raising key issues related to the systems of innovation approach as a conceptual framwork for regional innovation analysis. Includes enlightening conceptual and empirical work on the issue of how knowledge spills over locally.

Author : Blandine Laperche,Paul Sommers,Dimitri Uzunidis
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : 905201602X

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Innovation Networks and Clusters by Blandine Laperche,Paul Sommers,Dimitri Uzunidis Pdf

In Economics, networks are increasingly used to describe the many links created between independent companies, as well as between them and other institutions (universities, banks, venture capital, etc.). In the current global and knowledge-based economy, they can be characterised as knowledge factories and knowledge boosters. They feed the internal processes of innovation (collaborative innovation) or the external processes of innovation, created by the propagation effects that come from inter-firm collaboration. The book explains how innovation networks are at the origin of the production of new knowledge that will be transformed and used in common as well as in separated production processes. This characteristic of networks as knowledge factories gives incentives to further investment in the production of knowledge and ensures the cumulativeness of the innovation process. Some of the authors clearly take a territorial point of view and study how clusters (in different parts of the world: Europe, Eastern Asia and North America) propelled by the quality of the innovation networks they enclose, can be characterised as knowledge pools into which the local actors will be able to draw to reinforce their individual and collective competitiveness. This book also includes analyses of the quality of the networks built within clusters, which may help their identification.

Author : Elias G. Carayannis,Piero Formica
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230582262

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Knowledge Matters by Elias G. Carayannis,Piero Formica Pdf

A profile in socio-technical terms of ways that innovation is manifested in American, European, and Asian knowledge-based innovation networks and knowledge clusters. Twelve conceptual and empirical studies are presented that contribute to a better understanding of the role of knowledge in technological entrepreneurship.

Author : Chris Van Egeraat,Dieter Kogler,Phil Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317682097

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Global and Regional Dynamics in Knowledge Flows and Innovation by Chris Van Egeraat,Dieter Kogler,Phil Cooke Pdf

Innovation, which in essence is the generation of knowledge and its subsequent application in the marketplace in the form of novel products and processes, has become the key concept in inquiries concerning the contemporary knowledge based economy. Geography plays a decisive role in the underlying processes that enable and support knowledge formation and diffusion activities. Place specific characteristics are considered especially important in this context, however, more recently investigation into innovative capacity of places has also turned its attention to external knowledge inputs through innovation networks, and increasingly recognize the evolutionary character of the processes that lead to knowledge creation and subsequent application in the marketplace. The chapters that comprise this book are embedded at the intersection of the dynamic processes of knowledge production and creative destruction. The first three contributions all discuss the role of global innovation networks, in the context of territorial and/or sectoral dynamics, while the following two chapters investigate the evolution of regional or metropolitan knowledge economies. The final three contributions adopt a knowledge base approach in order to provide insight into the organisation of innovation networks and spatiality of knowledge flows. This book was published in a special issue of European Planning Studies.

Author : Innovation Systems Research Network. Conference,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies
Publisher : Published for the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University by McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111770009

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Knowledge, Clusters and Regional Innovation by Innovation Systems Research Network. Conference,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies Pdf

Innovation is increasingly recognised as the key to successful competition in the global knowledge-based economy. In Knowledge, Clusters and Regional Innovation the authors illuminate the highly differentiated nature of the innovation systems found across the country and demonstrate that innovation can occur in a wide range of sectors and clusters, ranging from multimedia and biotechnology in large metropolitan areas to more traditional sectors such as wood products in rural settings.Written by members of the Innovation Systems Research Network (ISRN), a cross-national network of regionally oriented researchers from a wide range of disciplines, Knowledge, Clusters and Regional Innovation provides important insights into the varied nature of innovation in the Canadian economy. The members of the network have recently launched a major study of cluster development across Canada that promises to provide scholars and policymakers with continuing insights into the nature economic development in Canada.Contributors include Neil Bradford (Huron University College), Shauna Brail (Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ontario), John N.H. Britton (University of Toronto), Michael Gurstein (Technical University of British Columbia), J. Adam Holbrook, Cooper H. Langford (University of Calgary), Lisa Mills (Brown University), Jorge Niosi (Université du Québec à Montréal), Pierre Therrien (Marketplace Innovation Directorate, Industry Canada), Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay (Université du Québec), and David A. Wolfe.

Author : Manlio Del Giudice,Elias G. Carayannis,Maria Rosaria Della Peruta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461420880

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Cross-Cultural Knowledge Management by Manlio Del Giudice,Elias G. Carayannis,Maria Rosaria Della Peruta Pdf

Cross-cultural knowledge management, an elusive yet consequential phenomenon, is becoming an increasingly essential factor in organizational practice and policy in the era of globalization. In order to overcome culturally shaped blind spots in conducting research in different settings, this volume highlights how the structuring of roles, interests, and power among different organizational elements, such as teams, departments, and management hierarchies (each comprised of members from different intellectual and professional backgrounds), generates various paradoxes and tensions that bring into play a set of dynamics that have an impact on learning processes. In this context, such questions often arise: How is knowledge shared in the multicultural organization? What problems and issues emerge? How do different mentalities affect people’s responses to new knowledge and new ideas? How can knowledge-sharing processes be improved? Under which conditions do ideas generated by units or groups of different cultural traditions have a chance of being heard and implemented? Such questions translate into an investigation of potential managerial dilemmas that occur when different but equally valid choices create tensions in decision making. The authors draw from experiences working with a wide variety of organizations, and insights from such fields as sociology and psychology, to shed new light on the dynamics of knowledge management in the multicultural enterprise. In so doing, they help to identify both obstacles to successful communication and opportunities to inspire creativity and foster collaboration. The authors note that in order to enable organizations to transfer knowledge effectively, mechanisms for dispute settlement, mediation of cultural conflict, and enforcing agreements need to be in place.

Author : Rob Cross,Andrew Parker,Lisa Sasson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780195347883

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Networks in the Knowledge Economy by Rob Cross,Andrew Parker,Lisa Sasson Pdf

In today's de-layered, knowledge-intensive organizations, most work of importance is heavily reliant on informal networks of employees within organizations. However, most organizations do not know how to effectively analyze this informal structure in ways that can have a positive impact on organizational performance. Networks in the Knowledge Economy is a collection of readings on the application of social network analysis to managerial concerns. Social network analysis (SNA), a set of analytic tools that can be used to map networks of relationships, allows one to conduct very powerful assessments of information sharing within a network with relatively little effort. This approach makes the invisible web of relationships between people visible, helping managers make informed decisions for improving both their own and their group's performance. Networks in the Knowledge Economy is specifically concerned with networks inside of organizations and addresses three critical areas in the study of social networks: Social Networks as Important Individual and Organizational Assets, Social Network Implications for Knowledge Creation and Sharing, and Managerial Implications of Social Networks in Organizations. Professionals and students alike will find this book especially valuable, as it provides readings on the application of social network analysis that reflect managerial concerns.

Author : Elias G. Carayannis,George M. Korres
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857939913

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The Innovation Union in Europe by Elias G. Carayannis,George M. Korres Pdf

One of the most important economic events in recent decades has been the on-going process of European integration. This book provides a basic yet rigorous understanding of the current issues and problems of economic integration and innovation in Europe, and argues that national or regional economic development depends mainly on technical change, social and human capital, and knowledge creation and diffusion This is clearly evident in the role of the Quadruple Innovation Helix of government, university, industry and civil society. Uniquely, the book examines the many aspects and consequences of the integration process that are obscure or as yet under-researched. The authors explore a wide range of topics, methodologies and perspectives in order to provide a stimulating and wide-ranging analyses. The Innovation Union in Europe will be of interest to students, economic theorists, empirical and social scientists, policy makers, as well as the informed general reader.

Author : Isabel Salavisa Lança,Margarida Fontes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415666367

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Social Networks, Innovation and the Knowledge Economy by Isabel Salavisa Lança,Margarida Fontes Pdf

In this book, the authors illustrate how social networks can play a very significant role in the technological catch up process in moderate innovative countries. Using an innovative approach to the study of entrepreneurship in knowledge-intensive sectors, the book analyses the role of social networks in the access and deployment of the variety of competences and resources required for the successful creation of knowledge-intensive companies, which has not yet been studied sufficiently in this context.

Author : Stefano Breschi,Franco Malerba
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199275556

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Clusters, Networks and Innovation by Stefano Breschi,Franco Malerba Pdf

Examining the role of the much-vaunted concepts of regional clusters in the prosperity and economic expansion of countries, this work looks at the different experiences of industrial districts and high-tech regions such as Silicon Valley, Boston's biotech region, and Hsinchu-Taipei.