Technological Communities and Networks: Triggers and Drivers for Innovation

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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.

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List of figures	p. xi
List of graphs	p. xiii
List of tables	p. xv
List of abbreviations and acronyms	p. xvii
Prologue and acknowledgements	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Communities as the social locus of knowledge-intensive technological practice	p. 14
Collaboration networks as the social locus of knowledge-intensive technological innovation	p. 33
Ptolemaic views of personal networks in cross-national innovation	p. 51
An astronomer's view of the origins of a national GIS community	p. 91
A regional semiconductor community and academic entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley	p. 130
Technological communities and networks: new frontiers for knowledge-intensive innovation	p. 184
SNA concepts and metrics	p. 200
Glossary of SNA terminology	p. 203
References	p. 205
Author index	p. 219
Subject index	p. 223
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