Social Networks Innovation and the Knowledge Economy

• Author : Isabel Salavisa,Margarida Fontes
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 26 July 2012

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 : Rob Cross,Andrew Parker,Lisa Sasson
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 14 August 2003

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

• Author : Gilberto Marzano
• Publisher : Mimesis
• Release : 07 February 2017

It is commonly shared the idea that social innovation is the creation of social value by solving social problems. Accordingly, social innovation can be deemed to be the production of new solutions to social problems in a more effective, efficient, and sustainable way. Analyzing the consequences of the current economic crisis and its impact on health care services, there is who has advanced the idea that social innovation can constitute an effective strategy to counter-balance the retrenchment of public social

• Author : Renata Paola Dameri, Roberto Garelli and Marina Resta
• Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
• Release : 24 August 2015

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 10th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2015), hosted this year by The University of Genoa, Italy on the 17-18 September 2015. The Conference Chair is Prof Luca Beltrametti and the Programme Co-chairs are Prof Renata Paola Dameri, Prof. Roberto Garelli and Prof. Marina Resta, all from the University of Genoa. ECIE continues to develop and evolve. Now in its 10th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share

• Author : Anant Kamath
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 27 November 2014

This book offers an innovative examination of how ‘low–technology’ industries operate. Based on extensive fieldwork in India, the book fuses economic and sociological perspectives on information sharing by means of informal interaction in a low-technology cluster in a developing country. In doing so, the book sheds new light on settings where economic relations arise as emergent properties of social relations. This book examines industrial innovation and microeconomic network behaviour among producers and clusters, perceiving knowledge diffusion to be a

• Author : Roel Rutten,Paul Benneworth,Dessy Irawati,Frans Boekema
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 17 June 2014

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

• Author : R. Strathdee
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 30 April 2016

Challenging the popular opinion that the rising inter-personal and inter-organizational networks confer advantage to individuals as they secure education resources, this book identifies new forms of emerging social exclusions.

• Author : Paul Cunningham,Miriam Cunningham
• Publisher : Ios PressInc
• Release : 17 August 2022

Exploitation of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) is critical to building the Knowledge Economy. This work brings together a comprehensive collection of contributions on commercial, government or societal exploitation of the Internet and ICT, representing research and practical eAdoption from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

• Author : Prasad Yarlagadda,Su Fen Yang,Keon Myung Lee
• Publisher : Trans Tech Publications Ltd
• Release : 03 September 2013

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 2nd International Conference on Information Technology and Management Innovation (ICITMI 2013), July 23-24, 2013, Zhuhai, China. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The 642 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Information Processing and Information Security; Chapter 2: Information Storage and Database System; Chapter 3: Software Engineering; Chapter 4: Computer Networks; Chapter 5: Modern Technologies in Communication and Navigation; Chapter 6: Multimedia Technology; Chapter 7: Data and Signal Processing; Chapter 8: Processing Image and Video; Chapter 9: Applied and Computational Mathematics; Chapter 10:

• Author : L¢pez S ez, Pedro,Castro, Gregorio Mart¡n de,Navas L¢pez, Jos‚ Emilio,Delgado Verde, Miriam
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release : 30 June 2010

"This book provides theoretical frameworks and empirical research findings to assist managers, academics and consultants gain a thorough understanding of intellectual capital and social capital as a base for improving their tasks"--Provided by publisher.

• Author : Charlie Karlsson,Börje Johansson,Roger Stough
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 27 September 2006

The phenomenon of entrepreneurship has attracted researchers from a variety of disciplines and a diverse number of analytical approaches. Currently, there is a considerable amount of confusion and a variety of conflicting theories which are being used interchangeably and ambiguously. In this important new book, the authors argue that there are analytically distinct forms of entrepreneurship, each of them having an individual logic of their own. They highlight the role of individual economic agents with endowments of new knowledge or

• Author : Christopher S. Rollyson
• Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
• Release : 31 January 2014

A chapter from the Global Innovation Science Handbook, a comprehensive guide to the science, art, tools, and deployment of innovation, brought together by two Editors of the prestigious International Journal of Innovation Science, with ground-breaking contributions from global innovation leaders in every type of industry.

• Author : Paul M. Cunningham
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 17 August 2022

• Author : Manlio Del Giudice,Maria Rosaria Della Peruta,Elias G. Carayannis
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 17 September 2016

Traditionally, the study of entrepreneurial behavior focuses on such factors as (i) the personality characteristics that distinguish the entrepreneur from non-entrepreneur and (ii) demographic characteristics such gender, age, familiar antecedents and education. With particular respect to investigating the development, acquisition, and dissemination of entrepreneurial skills and behaviors, the authors focus on the university environment, as a locus of research and innovation, where students are exposed to a wide variety of influences that are enhanced by a high degree of connectivity.

• Author : Katerina Psarikidou
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 14 February 2022

This book offers a critical analysis of the diverse knowledge and knowledge production processes through which ‘alternative agro-food networks’ can constitute a more plural ‘knowledge economy’. It provides critical sociological and political economic insights that help problematise dominant capitalocentric and technocentric framings of the ‘knowledge (bio)economy’. It will appeal to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in supporting inclusive research, policy and innovation agendas for sustainability.