Understanding the Relationship Between Networks and Technology, Creativity and Innovation

This 13th volume of the "Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy" series is devoted to research into the implications of social networks for creativity, innovation, and technology. The editors (four of the Recanati Business School, Tel Aviv U., Israel, and one of the Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto, Canada) present eight chapters examining such topics as the coevolutionary perspective of industry-network dynamics; innovation, networks, and regions in Israel's knowledge-intensive sectors; the evolution of research collaboration networks and their impact on firm innovation output; the role of publishing inventors in nanotechnology; the interdependencies of formal and informal network structure and the exploration of new technological opportunities among geographically dispersed firms; the impact of production and usage networks on academic citations; the costs of creating network relations and the implications for firm performance in the case of high technology firms; and regional networks, alliance portfolio configuration, and innovation performance. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)