Technological Communities and Networks: Triggers and Drivers for Innovation

by Dimitris Assimakopoulos

Overview

The first book to analyze how new technologies are emerging against a background of continuing globalization of research and development activities. This unique book explores how technological communities and networks shape a broad range of new computer based technologies in regional, national and international contexts.Offering a critique of exist

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134312443
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/17/2007
Series:	Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dimitris Assimakopoulos

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Communties as the Social Locus of Knowledge Intensive Technological Practice 3. Collaboration Networks as the Social Locus of Knowledge Intensive Technological Innovation 4. Ptolemaic Views of Personal Networks in Cross-National Innovation 5. An Astronomer's View of the Origins of a National GIS Community 6. A Regional Semiconductor Community and Academic Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley 7. Technological Communities and Networks: New Frontiers for Knowledge Intensive Innovation