Innovative Networks [electronic resource]: Co-operation in National Innovation Systems /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2001.
This book analyses the role of networks in innovation and technology diffusion. It reviews policy initiatives to promote efficient networking in selected OECD countries, and draws the main implications for public policy. It provides both fresh conceptual insights and new factual information on this important mechanism of innovation-led growth.
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CONTENTS; Chapter 1. Innovation and Networks: An Introduction to the Theme  Andreas Schibany and Wolfgang Polt; Part 1. Theoretical Framework; Chapter 2. The Comparative Advantage of Networks in Economic Organisation: Efficiency and Innovation in Highly Specialised and Uncertain Environments Timo Hämäläinen and Gerd Schienstock; Part II. Applied Analysis of Co-operation/Collaboration/Networking; Chapter 3. Innovative Activity and Firm Characteristics: A Cluster Analysis of Swiss Manufacturing Using Firm-Level Data Spyros Arvanitis and Heinz Hollenstein
Chapter 4. Innovation Modes in the Swiss Service Sector: A Cluster Analysis Based on Firm-Level Data Heinz HollensteinChapter 5. Technological Collaboration, Firm Size and Innovation: A Study of UK Manufacturing Firms Richard Torbett; Chapter 6. Exchange of Employees, Prototypes and Use of Electronic Media in Product Development Collaboration: Results from a Danish StudyPreben Sander Kristensen and Anker Lund Vinding; Chapter 7. Inter-Firm Technological Collaboration in Australia in an International Context: Implications for Innovation Performance and Public Policy Ester Basri
Chapter 8. Differences in the Propensity to Innovate between Less and More Developed Regions: How a System of Innovation Approach Can Explain Them Bianca PotìChapter 9. Networking Impacts of the EU Framework ProgrammeTerttu Luukkonen; Chapter 10. Knowledge Spillovers through R&D Networking Michel Dumont and Aggelos Tsakanikas; Part III. Interactions between Knowledge Institutions and Industry; Chapter 11. Interactions between Universities and Enterprises in Austria: An Empirical Analysis at the Micro and Sector Levels Andreas Schibany and Doris Schartinger
Chapter 12. Collaboration between Manufacturing Firms and Knowldege Instiutions on Product Development: Evidence from Harmonised Surveys in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Norway and Spain Jesper Lindgard Christensen, Andreas Schibany, Anker Lund VindingChapter 13. University-Industry Research Co-Operation in Chinese Taipei Feng-Shang Wu; Part IV. Policy; Chapter 14. The Role of Governments in Networking Wolfgang Polt; Chapter 15. Concluding Remarks Wolfgang Polt and Andreas Schibany; Annex: Policy Case Study: Austria
Includes bibliographical references.
This book analyses the role of networks in innovation and technology diffusion. It reviews policy initiatives to promote efficient networking in selected OECD countries, and draws the main implications for public policy. It provides both fresh conceptual insights and new factual information on this important mechanism of innovation-led growth.
Diffusion of innovations.
Technological innovations
Social networks.
Business and education.
Innovation Systems Technology of Diffusion