The Social Dynamics Of Innovation Networks

Author : Roel Rutten,Paul Benneworth,Dessy Irawati,Frans Boekema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135130176

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The Social Dynamics of Innovation Networks by Roel Rutten,Paul Benneworth,Dessy Irawati,Frans Boekema Pdf

The social dynamics of innovation networks captures the important role of trust, social capital, institutions and norms and values in the creation of knowledge in innovation networks. In doing so, this book connects to a long-standing debate on the socio-spatial context of innovation in economic geography, which is usually referred to as the Territorial Models of Innovation (TIMs) literature. This present volume breaks with the TIM literature in several important ways. In the first place, this book emphasizes the role of individual agency because individuals and their networks are increasingly recognized as the principal agents of knowledge creation. Secondly, this volume looks at space as a continuous field of opportunity rather than as bounded territory with a set of endowments, such as knowledge base and social capital. Although individually these elements are not new to the TIM literature, it has thus far failed to grasp their critical implication for studying the social dynamics of innovation networks. The approach to the socio-spatial context of innovation in this volume is summarized as Knowledge Economy 2.0. It emphasizes that human creativity is now the main source of economic value and that human creativity and knowledge creation is not an organized process within organizations, but happens bottom up in formal and informal professional and social networks of individuals that cut across multiple organizations.

Author : Yang Song,Francesca Grippa,Peter A. Gloor,João Leitão
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030172381

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Collaborative Innovation Networks by Yang Song,Francesca Grippa,Peter A. Gloor,João Leitão Pdf

Collaborative innovation networks are cyberteams of motivated individuals, and are self-organizing emergent social systems with the potential to promote health, happiness and individual growth in real-world work settings. This book describes how to identify and nurture collaborative innovation networks in order to shape the future working environment and pave the way for health and happiness, and how to develop future technologies to promote economic development, social innovation and entrepreneurship. The expert contributions and case studies presented also offer insights into how large corporations can creatively generate solutions to real-world problems by means of self-organizing mechanisms, while simultaneously promoting the well-being of individual workers. The book also discusses how such networks can benefit startups, offering new self-organizing forms of leadership in which all stakeholders are encouraged to collaborate in the development of new products.

Author : Andreas Pyka,Andrea Scharnhorst
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540922674

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Innovation Networks by Andreas Pyka,Andrea Scharnhorst Pdf

The science of graphs and networks is now an established tool for modeling and analyzing systems with a large number of interacting components. The contributions to this anthology address different aspects of the relationship between innovation and networks.

Author : Francis C. Moon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400775282

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Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention by Francis C. Moon Pdf

This book integrates history of science and technology with modern social network theory. Using examples from the history of machines, as well as case studies from wireless, radio and chaos theory, the author challenges the genius model of invention. Network analysis concepts are presented to demonstrate the societal nature of invention in areas such as steam power, internal combustion engines, early aviation, air conditioning and more. Using modern measures of network theory, the author demonstrates that the social networks of invention from the 19th and early 20th centuries have similar characteristics to modern 21st C networks such as the World Wide Web. The book provides evidence that exponential growth in technical innovation is linked to the growth of historical innovation networks.

Author : Victor Gilsing
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781958920

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The Dynamics of Innovation and Interfirm Networks by Victor Gilsing Pdf

"Academics, specifically those interested in the dynamic interaction between networks and innovation, will find this book of great interest, as will policy makers and management practitioners."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Eva Panetti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429511011

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The Dynamics of Local Innovation Systems by Eva Panetti Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the dynamics underpinning the successful performance of local innovation systems (LIS), that is, spatial concentration of innovation activities in specific geographical areas, characterized by the synergetic co-localization of research centers, innovation-driven enterprises, large corporations and capital providers. The reader will gain a deeper knowledge of LIS theory and learn about the theoretical and empirical challenges of studying the LIS from a relational perspective. The book also provides an analytical framework to explore the level of connectivity among LIS actors through the use of social network analysis (network architecture) and second, to assess the variety of different types of relationships that local actors put in place to produce innovation within the LIS (network portfolio). More specifically, this book explores which network configuration is associated with a successful LIS by deriving evidence from the empirical study of the biopharma LIS in the Greater Boston Area (GBA), which has been exemplified as a benchmark case in terms of successful LIS performance. This book also contributes to the theoretical debate about the optimal configuration of network structure (e.g. network closure vs. network openness). In capturing the heterogeneous nature of the LIS demography, it addresses the challenges brought about by the adoption of a holistic approach. Finally, the study provides insights into the network portfolio composition, which has been underexplored by extant literature. Besides addressing the scientific community in the field, this book will also be a valuable resource with practical implications for policymakers and those actors willing to undertake an active role in the development of an LIS in their own regions.

Author : Francesca Grippa,João Leitão,Julia Gluesing,Ken Riopelle,Peter Gloor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319742953

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Collaborative Innovation Networks by Francesca Grippa,João Leitão,Julia Gluesing,Ken Riopelle,Peter Gloor Pdf

This unique book reveals how Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) can be used to achieve resilience to change and external shocks. COINs, which consist of 'cyberteams' of motivated individuals, are self-organizing emergent social systems for coping with external change. The book describes how COINs enable resilience in healthcare, e.g. through teams of patients, family members, doctors and researchers to support patients with chronic diseases, or by reducing infant mortality by forming groups of mothers, social workers, doctors, and policymakers. It also examines COINs within large corporations and how they build resilience by forming, spontaneously and without intervention on the part of the management, to creatively respond to new risks and external threats. The expert contributions also discuss how COINs can benefit startups, offering new self-organizing forms of leadership in which all stakeholders collaborate to develop new products.

Author : Nigel Gilbert,Petra Ahrweiler,Andreas Pyka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662435083

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Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks by Nigel Gilbert,Petra Ahrweiler,Andreas Pyka Pdf

The competitiveness of firms, regions and countries greatly depends on the generation, dissemination and application of new knowledge. Modern innovation research is challenged by the need to incorporate knowledge generation and dissemination processes into the analysis so as to disentangle the complexity of these dynamic processes. With innovation, however, strong uncertainty, nonlinearities and actor heterogeneity become central factors that are at odds with traditional modeling techniques anchored in equilibrium and homogeneity. This text introduces SKIN (Simulation Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks), an agent-based simulation model that primarily focuses on joint knowledge creation and exchange of knowledge in innovation co‐operations and networks. In this context, knowledge is explicitly modeled and not approximated by, for instance, the level of accumulated R&D investment. The SKIN approach supports applications in different domains ranging from sector-based research activities in knowledge-intensive industries to the activities of international research consortia engaged in basic and applied research. Following a general description of the SKIN model, several applications and modifications are presented. Each chapter introduces in detail the structure of the model, the relevant methodological considerations and the analysis of simulation results, while options for empirically validating the models’ structure and outcomes are also discussed. The book considers the scope of further applications and outlines prospects for the development of joint modeling strategies.

Author : Chris Van Egeraat,Dieter Kogler,Phil Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Tobias Buchmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783658103835

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The Evolution of Innovation Networks by Tobias Buchmann Pdf

Tobias Buchmann analyzes innovation network dynamics in the German automotive industry. The study is based on a model for analyzing the complex evolution of innovation networks and the driving mechanisms underlying network evolution derived from theoretical and empirical findings in innovation economics, economic geography and management science. The author uses established social network analysis (SNA) techniques and combines them with recent methodological developments in the analysis of network evolution.

Author : Petra Ahrweiler,Andreas Pyka,Nigel Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1155532931

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Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks (SKIN) by Petra Ahrweiler,Andreas Pyka,Nigel Gilbert Pdf

Author : Steve Conway,Oswald Jones,Fred Steward
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783261833

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Social Interaction And Organisational Change, Aston Perspectives On Innovation Networks by Steve Conway,Oswald Jones,Fred Steward Pdf

This book provides a detailed, multi-disciplinary analysis of innovation networks in a variety of organisational settings. All the contributors are employed at Aston Business School, which is one of the UK's foremost institutions in terms of both teaching and research. The book illustrates the way in which innovation networks are formed and sustained in a variety of organisational settings: the public sector, public-private collaboration, national policy level, inter-organisational credit links, as well as the more traditional focus on manufacturing firms. The strength of the network approach is that it encourages detailed analyses of the dyadic links which must be mobilised in the innovation process. At the same time, networks provide a framework for exploring the multiple sources and pluralistic patterns of communication typical of innovatory activity. Therefore, in contrast to much of the innovation network research undertaken in recent years, the focus of this book is as much on notions of “network as method” as on “network as phenomenon”.

Author : Rick Aalbers,Wilfred Dolfsma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317633433

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Innovation Networks by Rick Aalbers,Wilfred Dolfsma Pdf

Organizations are complex social systems that are not easy to understand, yet they must be managed if a company is to succeed. This book explains networks and how managers and organizations can navigate them to produce successful strategic innovation outcomes. Although managers are increasingly aware of the importance of social relations for the inner-workings of the organization, they often lack insights and tools to analyze, influence or even create these networks. This book draws on insights from social network theory; insights sharpened by research in a number of different empirical settings including production, engineering, financial services, consulting, food processing, and R&D/hi-tech organizations and alternates between offering critical real business examples and more rigorous analysis. This concise book is vital reading for students of business and management as well as managers and executives.

Author : Petra Ahrweiler,Nigel Gilbert,Andreas Pyka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781443892391

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Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy by Petra Ahrweiler,Nigel Gilbert,Andreas Pyka Pdf

This book explores how complexity science and social simulation can be used to improve and inform policy-making in both research and innovation. Beginning with an introduction to conceptual definitions of complexity science and social simulation, the book demonstrates the validity of the underlying integrated research framework used throughout. It is then divided into two parts, with the first investigating the effects and impacts of policy making on the structure, composition and outputs of research and innovation networks using the agent-based SKIN platform (Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks, http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/SKIN/). The second half of the book discusses a research initiative funded by the Irish government focusing on innovation policy simulation for economic recovery. This consists of empirical research on Irish research and innovation networks, and SKIN-based simulations of technology transfer issues and the commercialization of research in areas with high potential for innovation and economic growth. The book concludes with reflections on the maturity and utility of an approach combining complexity science and social simulation for research and innovation policy. Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy will be of particular interest to scientists concerned with innovation and complex systems, including economists, sociologists, and complexity researchers, as well as students and practitioners, such as innovation policymakers and innovation business managers.

Author : Julie Tian Miao,Paul Benneworth,Nicholas A. Phelps
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317917380

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Making 21st Century Knowledge Complexes by Julie Tian Miao,Paul Benneworth,Nicholas A. Phelps Pdf

The world has changed profoundly since the publication of the influential book Technopoles of the World. As policy-makers and practitioners attempt to harness science, technology and innovation to create dynamic and vibrant cities many wonder how relevant Manuel Castells and Peter Hall's messages are today. Twenty years later, this book returns to their concepts and practices to update their message for the 21st century. Making 21st Century Knowledge Complexes: Technopoles of the World Revisited argues that the contemporary technopole concept encompasses three new dimensions. Firstly, building synergy between partners is vital for the success of complexes. Secondly, the correct governance arrangements are critical to balance competing interests inevitable in any science city project. Thirdly, new evaluation mechanisms are indispensable in allowing policy-makers to steer their long-term benefits. Through twelve case study chapters and a detailed comparative analysis, this book provides academics, policy-makers and practitioners with critical insights in understanding, managing and promoting today's high-technology urban complexes.