Technological communities and networks : triggers and drivers for innovation /
Assimakopoulos, Dimitris G.
London : Routledge,
2007
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and indexes.
Introduction -- Communities as the social locus of knowledge-intensive technological practice -- Collaboration networks as the social locus of knowledge-intensive technological innovation -- Ptolemaic views of personal networks in cross-national innovation -- An astronomer's view of the origins of a national GIS community -- A regional semiconductor community and academic entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley -- Technological communities and networks : new frontiers for knowledge intensive innovation.
Technological innovations.
Diffusion of innovations.
Social networks.