Download or read book The Dynamics of Innovation and Interfirm Networks written by Victor Gilsing and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Download or read book Interfirm Networks written by Josef Windsperger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and informal inter-organizational governance by providing new insights on contract design, ownership, evolution of cooperation, role of social capital and performance in franchising networks; includes topics of loyalty, reputation and organizational form as well as performance of cooperatives, and discusses the relationship between formal and relational governance in alliances, governance structures of innovation activities, dynamics of interfirm conflicts, and network externalities and alliance formation.

Download or read book Design and Management of Interfirm Networks written by Josef Windsperger and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interfirm networks include franchising, retail and service chains, cooperatives, financial networks, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, public-private partnerships and new network forms in the digital economy. This book gathers the latest research studies that approach these networks – and the creation of innovation under the conditions of a complex, dynamic, knowledge-intensive and digital economy – from an interdisciplinary perspective. The studies, all of which were written by respected experts, explore how firms can improve their competitiveness by securing access to innovation, knowledge, complementary resources and capabilities otherwise not available to them. In addition, they highlight how, driven by an unpredictable environment, firms embedded in inter-organizational networks are increasingly transforming from co-operators to collaborators and valuable co-creators of innovation.

Download or read book The Dynamics of Local Innovation Systems written by Eva Panetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Interfirm Networks written by Josef Windsperger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and informal inter-organizational governance by providing new insights on contract design, ownership, evolution of cooperation, role of social capital and performance in franchising networks; includes topics of loyalty, reputation and organizational form as well as performance of cooperatives, and discusses the relationship between formal and relational governance in alliances, governance structures of innovation activities, dynamics of interfirm conflicts, and network externalities and alliance formation.

Download or read book Innovation Networks and Clusters written by Blandine Laperche and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks written by Nigel Gilbert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Managing Dynamic Networks written by Stefan Klein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaboration of organizations reshapes traditional managerial practices and creates new inter-organizational contexts for strategy, coordination and control, information and knowledge management. Heralded as organizational forms of the future, networks are at the same time fragile and precarious organizational arrangements, which regularly fail. In order to investigate the new realities created by technology-enabled forms of network organizations and to address the emerging managerial challenges, this book introduces an integrative view on inter-firm network management. Centred on a network life cycle perspective, strategic, economic and relational facets of business networking are explored. The network management framework is illustrated onto a broad range of European inter-firm network examples in various industries rendering insights for new management practices.

Download or read book The Social Dynamics of Innovation Networks written by Roel Rutten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Industrial Clusters and Inter firm Networks written by Charlie Karlsson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This well-edited volume should be on the shelf of every regional development agency library. Its seventeen chapters written by 31 predominantly academic contributors are divided into four coherent sections: the first on cluster and network modelling, the next on empirical analysis, a third on case studies, finishing with two chapters on policy analysis and strategies.' - Tony Jackson, Journal of Economic Development This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of spatial industrial clusters and inter-firm networks. Given the prevailing political belief that clusters can be a major vehicle for economic development and growth, it is important to have a sound understanding of clusters and how they emerge, grow, eventually stagnate and disappear. It is also vital to know when and how to apply policy measures to support cluster development in order to increase economic welfare. This book illuminates both the theoretical and empirical issues relating to clusters and inter-firm networks, and presents a number of interesting case studies from a variety of different countries.

Download or read book Relational Methodologies and Epistemology in Economics and Management Sciences written by Biggiero, Lucio and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social sciences, especially economics, management, and organizational science, are experiencing a tremendous renewed interest for their epistemological and methodological statutes, as witnessed by the many books and specialized journals established during the last two decades. Relational Methodologies and Epistemology in the Economics and Management Sciences identifies and presents the four main network-based methodologies including network analysis, Boolean network simulation modeling, artificial neural network simulation modeling, and agent-based simulation modeling in addition to their conceptual-epistemological implications and concrete applications within the social and natural sciences. Featuring a critical assessment of relational methodologies and their practical applications, this timely publication is ideal for use by corporate R&D departments, researchers, theorists, and graduate-level students.

Download or read book Innovation Discovery Network Analysis Of Research And Invention Activity For Technology Management written by Daim Tugrul U and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of bibliometrics for the analysis of technology management is on the rise in our increasingly technological societies. Many are using these tools to document or record the rise of various technologies, making it necessary to take stock of the value and application of scientometric methods and their measures. Innovation Discovery shows the current state of play within the field of management of technology, and discusses how we can use networks to explore, understand and generate theory around the innovation process. It looks at the different streams of analysis used to understand bibliometric data, and presents alternative and novel ways of applying these techniques. Written as a comprehensive review of approaches by leading researchers in the field, this book is suitable for graduate and post-graduate students and researches looking to expand their knowledge and embark on further investigations in technology management. Contents: Part 1: Bibliometrics: The Case of Comparing an Ecosystem Using System and Network Approaches (Marco Tregua, Anna D'Auria, Tiziana Russo Spena, and Francesco Bifulco)Bibliometrics and Patents: Case of Forecasting of Biosensor Technologies for Emerging Point-of-Care and Medical IoT Applications (Nasir Jamil Sheikh, and Omar Sheikh)Patents: The Case of Exploitation of the Patent System Among SMEs and Private Inventors in Finland (J Talvela, M Karvonen, and T Kässi)Patents: Case of Analyzing Technological Knowledge Diffusion Among Technological Fields Using Patent Data: The Example of Microfluidics (Zheng Qiao, Lu-Cheng Huang, Fei-Fei Wu, Dan Wu, and Hui Zhang)Part 2: Patents and Networks: Case of Discerning the Evolutionary Nature of Technological Change in the Complex Product Industry (Fei Yuan and Kumiko Miyazaki)Patents and Networks: Case of Identification of Core Industry Actors for Electric Vehicle Battery by Application of Knowledge Flow (Yuan Yuan Shi and Tugrul Daim)Patents and Networks: Case of Social Network Analysis for Innovation (Antonello Cammarano, Mauro Caputo, Emilia Lamberti, and Francesca Michelino)Patents and Networks: Case of Cochlear Implant Technology Evolution Using Patent Classification Data (Srigowtham Arunagiri and Mary Mathew)Part 3: Bibliometrics and Networks: Case of a Multinational Perspective on How Eco-Innovation has Evolved in Academic Literature (Blanca de-Miguel-Molina, María de-Miguel-Molina, María-del-Val Segarra-Oña, and Ángel Peiró-Signes)Bibliometrics and Social Network Analysis Supporting the Research Development of Emerging Areas: Case Studies from Thailand (Nathasit Gerdsri and Alisa Kongthon)Bibliometrics and Networks: Trends and Typology of Emerging Antenna Propagation Technologies (Yasutomo Takano, Yuya Kajikawa, and Makoto Ando)Bibliometrics and Networks: Case of Project Management and the Emergence of a Knowledge-Based Discipline (Alan Pilkington, Kah-Hin Chai, and Le Yang)Part 4: Emerging Networking Methods: Innovation Intermediaries in Technological Alliances (Calvin S Weng)Emerging Networking Methods: Analysing Funding Patterns and Their Evolution in Two Medical Research Topics (Blanca de-Miguel-Molina, Scott W Cunningham, and Fernando Palop)Part 5: Advanced Methods: Identifying the Technology Profiles of R&D Performing Firms — A Matching of R&D and Patent Data (Peter Neuhäusler, Rainer Frietsch, Carolin Mund, and Verena Eckl)Advanced Methods: Identification of Promising High-Tech Solutions with Semantic Technologies: Energy, Pha

Download or read book Organizational Culture Business to Business Relationships and Interfirm Networks written by Arch G. Woodside and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides in-depth understanding about business-to-business (B2B) and organizational relationships. This title includes descriptions on how B2B networks form, function and develop and is for readers who want to delve into how B2B relationships actually work and, frequently, do not work.

Download or read book Interfirm Networks written by Anna Grandori and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-08-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nature of interfirm networks and their role in promoting industrial competitiveness. Drawing on a variety of case studies the contributors present a balanced theoretical and empirical approach.

Download or read book The New Knowledge Economy in Europe written by Bengt-Åke Lundvall and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge is fast becoming one of the main sources of wealth, yet it can also become a source of inequalities. This study attempts to determine whether it is possible to hasten the transition towards a knowledge-based economy and enhance competitiveness with increased employment and improved social cohesion across Europe.

Download or read book Organizing Entrepreneurship written by Anna Grandori and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating classic and recent insights into the organization, economics and management of entrepreneurial activities, Organizing Entrepreneurship aims to blend rigor with relevance, and connects theory with practical problems Complimented by international case studies and simulations, as well as analysis questions, this key text is an ideal teaching and learning resource for all entrepreneurship students.

Download or read book Business to Business written by Mario Glowik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary business-to-business (B2B) industries consist of networks of customers, competitors and other stakeholders. Firms which manage their relationships with these important stakeholders are more likely to enjoy a sustained competitive advantage in the international business environment. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the field from a broad and accessible perspective. The authors bring an authoritative, scholarly understanding to the subject, taking readers through the entire process of creating, developing and maintaining B2B networks. Case studies illustrating each chapter include: Apple, Panasonic, Johnson & Johnson, Epson and Samsung. In providing a single and explicit established academic framework for understanding business networks in a global setting, this book is vital reading for students and researchers involved with international management, international marketing and strategic management.