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Social Capital and Innovation
Social capital,
Knowledge and Innovation
This section deals with the relationship between social networks,
knowledge diffusion and technological innovation. Suggested readings
address both the micro and the macro level of analysis. Micro level
studies explane the role of social capital in knowledge diffusion's
mechanisms among workers and among firms. Macro level studies analyse
the impact of social capital on competitiveness through the improvement
of knowledge and technology diffusion.
The section is under construction: suggestions
and comments are always most welcome.
Essential readings
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Essential Readings
Cooke, P, Morgan, K. (2000) The
Associational Economy: Firms, Regions and Innovation, Oxford,
Oxford University Press.
European Commission (2002), Final
Report of the Expert Group on Enterprise Clusters and Networks,
European Commission, Enterprise Directorate-General.
European Commission (2003), A
European Initiative for Growth. Investing in Networks and Knowledge
for Growth and Jobs, Final Report to the European Council, Brussels,
11.11.2003.
Fountain, J.E. (1997), Social
Capital: A Key Enabler of Innovation in Science and Technology,
in Branscomb, L.M., Keller, J. (eds), Investing
in Innovation: Toward A Consensus Strategy for Federal Technology
Policy, Cambridge, The MIT Press.
Maskell, P. (2000), Social Capital, Innovation and Competitivness,
in Baron, S. (ed), Social
Capital: Critical Perspectives, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Morgan, K., Nauwelaers, C. (eds) (1999), Regional
Innovation Strategies: The Challenge for Less Favoured Regions,
London, Routledge.
Nahapiet, J., Ghosal, S. (2000), Social Capital, Intellectual
Capital and the Organizational Advantage, in Lesser, E. (ed),
Knowledge
and Social Capital: Foundations and Applications, Boston, Butterworth
Heinemannn.
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Further Readings
Aalbers, R., Dolfsma, W., Koppius, O. (2004), On
And Off The Beaten Path: How Individuals Broker Knowledge Through
Formal And Informal Networks, ERIM Report Series Research in
Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Ackerman, M.S., Swenson, A., Cotterill, S., DeMaagd, K. (2003),
I-DIAG:
from community discussion to knowledge distillation, in Huysman,
M., Wenger, E., Wulf, W. (eds), Communities
and technologies, Deventer, Kluwer B.V.
Agapitova, N. (2003), The
Impact of Social Networks on Innovation and Industrial Development:
Social Dimensions of Industrial Dynamics in Russia, Paper presented
at the DRUID Summer Conference 2003 on Creating,
Sharing and Transferring Knowledge: The Role of Geographical Configurations,
Institutional Settings and Organizational Contexts.
Andersen, B., Striukova, L. (2004), Intangible
Assets and the Intellectual Capital: Where Value Resides in the
Modern Enterprise, Paper presented at the DRUID summer conference
2004, Industrial
Dynamics, Innovation and Development, Helsingør, June
14 - 16, 2004.
Arnold, E., Kuusisto, J. (2002), Government
Innovation Support for Commercialisation of Research, New R&D
Performers and R&D Networks, Technology Review 121/2002.
Arnold, P., Smith, J.D. (2003), Adding
connectivity and losing context with ICT: contrasting learning situations
from a community of practice perspective, in Huysman, M., Wenger,
E., Wulf, W. (eds), Communities
and technologies, Deventer, Kluwer B.V.
Asheim, B.T. (2000), The
Learning Firm in the Learning Region: Workers Participation as Social
Capital, Paper presented at the DRUID's Summer 2000 Conference,
The Learning Economy -
Firms, Regions and Nation Specific Institutions, Rebild, Denmark,
June 15-17 2000.
Bassanini, A., Scarpetta, S., Visco, I. (2000), Knowledge,
Technology and Economic Growth: Recent Evidence from OECD Countries,
OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 259.
Bezemer, D., Dulleck, U., Frijters, P. (2003), Contacts,
Social Capital and Market Institutions - A Theory of Development,
Vienna Economic Papers, N. 0311, University of Vienna, Department
of Economics.
Borgatti, S.P., Cross, R. (2003), A
Relational View of Information Seeking and Learning in Social Networks,
Management Science, Vol. 49, No. 4, April 2003, 432–445.
Botella, T., Durvy, J.N. (2004), Learning
Networks as a Policy Instrument: an example from a Network of Regions
of Excellence, The IPTS Report - Issue 84 - May 2004, European
Commission, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS).
Britton, J.H. (2002), Network
Structure of an Industrial Cluster: Electronics in Toronto,
Department of Geography, University of Toronto, mimeo.
Cassi, L. (2003), Information,
knowledge and social networks: is a new buzzword coming up?,
Paper presented at the DRUID
Academy Winter 2003 PhD Conference, Aalborg, Denmark January
16 -18, 2003.
Churchill, E.F., Nelson, L., Denoue, L. (2003), Multimedia
fliers: information sharing with digital community bulletin boards,
in Huysman, M., Wenger, E., Wulf, W. (eds), Communities
and technologies, Deventer, Kluwer B.V.
Cohen, S., Fields, G. (1998), Social
Capital and Capital Gains, or Virtual Bowling in Silicon Valley,
BRIE Working Paper No. 132, Berkeley Roundtable for International
Economics.
Cooke, P. (2003), Networks
and Hierarchies in Bioscientific Knowledge Management, Paper
presented at the DRUID Summer Conference 2003 on Creating,
Sharing and Transferring Knowledge: The Role of Geographical Configurations,
Institutional Settings and Organizational Contexts.
Cooke, P., Wills, D. (1999), Small
Firms, Social Capital and the Enhancement of Business Performance
Through Innovation Programmes, Small Business Economics, 13,
219-234.
Cowan, R., Jonard, N. (1999), Network
Structure and the Diffusion of Knowledge, forthcoming in the
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
Cowan, R., Jonard, N., Özman, M. (2003), Knowledge
Dynamics in a Network Industry, MERIT-Infonomics Research Memorandum
series, forthcoming in Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
Cowan, R., Jonard, N., Zimmermann, J.B. (2004), Evolving
Networks of Inventors, MERIT-Infonomics Research Memorandum
series.
Cowan, R., Jonard, N., Zimmermann, J.B. (2004), On
the Creation of Networks and Knowledge, MERIT-Infonomics Research
Memorandum series.
Cummings, S., Heeks, R., Huysman, M. (2003), Knowledge
and Learning in Online Communities in Development: A Social Capital
Perspective, Development Informatics Working Paper Series, No.
16, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University
of Manchester.
Dahl, M.S., Pedersen, Ø.R. (2003), Knowledge
Flows through Informal Contacts in Industrial Clusters: Myths or
Realities?, DRUID Working Paper No 03-01, Danish Research Unit
for Industrial Dynamics.
Dakhli, M., De Clercq, D. (2003), Human
capital, social capital, and innovation: a multi-country study,
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Working Paper Series 2003-18.
De Bruijn, P.J.M. (2004), Spatial
dimensions of cooperation aimed at innovation, Netherlands Organisation
for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) Working Paper.
Engen, O.A., Olsen, O.E. (2004), Stability
and Change in Industrial Knowledge Networks, Paper presented
at the DRUID summer conference 2004, Industrial
Dynamics, Innovation and Development, Helsingør, June
14 - 16, 2004.
Feinberg R.M., Price G.N. (2004), The
Funding of Economics Research: Does Social Capital Matter for Success
at the National Science Foundation?, The Review of Economics
and Statistics, 1 February 2004, vol. 86, no. 1, 245-252(8).
Florida, P. (1995), Towards the learning region, in
Futures 27(5), 527-536.
Fountain, J.E. (2000), Social
Capital and Technological Innovation. Chap. 7 in Technology
Management Handbook, 340-347, Boca Raton, FL, Chapman and Hall CRC
Press.
Fountain, J.E., Atkinson, R.D. (1998), Innovation,
Social Capital, and the New Economy. New Federal Policies to Support
Collaborative Research, Technology and Innovation, Briefing
July 1998, Progressive Policy Institute.
Frank, K.A., Zhao, Y., Borman, K. (2004), Social
Capital and the Diffusion of Innovations within Organizations: Application
to the Implementation of Computer Technology in Schools, Sociology
of Education, April 2004.
Gelauff, G.M.M. (2003), Social
Capital: an Indispensable Asset in the Knowledge-based Economy,
paper for the Workshop Social
Capital and Economic Development at the University of
Tilburg, 2003.
Giuliani, E. (2005), The
Structure of Cluster Knowledge Networks: Uneven and Selective, not
Pervasive and Collective, DRUID Working Paper No. 05-11.
Greve, A., Salaff, J. (2001), The
development of corporate social capital in complex innovation processes,
Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Social Capital of Organizations.
Vol. 18: 107-134, 2001. Editors: S.M. Gabbay and R.Th.A.J. Leenders.
Grodal, S. (2004), Towards
a Dynamic Model of Networks and Innovation, Paper presented
at the DRUID Summer Conference 2004, Industrial
Dynamics, Innovation and Development, Elsinore, Danmark, June
14-16, 2004.
Harmaakorpi, V. (2004), Building
a Competitive Regional Innovation Environment. The Regional Development
Platform Method as a Tool for Regional Innovation Policy, Dissertation
for the degree of Doctor of Science in Technology to be presented
with due permission of the Department of Industrial Engineering
and Management, Helsinki University of Technology.
Isham, J. (2000), The
Effect of Social Capital on Technology Adoption: Evidence from Rural
Tanzania, Paper presented at the Conference on "Opportunities
in Africa: Micro-evidence on Firms and Households", The
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, April 9th-10th,
2000.
Johnson, B., Lundvall, B.A., Lorenz, E., Jensen, M.B. (2004),
Codification
and Modes of Innovation, Paper presented at the DRUID summer
conference 2004, Industrial
Dynamics, Innovation and Development, Helsingør, June
14 - 16, 2004.
Kei Daniel, B., Zapata-Rivera, J.D., McCalla, G. (2003),
A
Bayesian computational model of social capital in virtual communities,
in Huysman, M., Wenger, E., Wulf, W. (eds), Communities
and technologies, Deventer, Kluwer B.V.
Kenney, M., Patton, D. (2003), Innovation
and Social Capital in Silicon Valley, BRIE Working Paper No.
155, The Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy.
Kingsley, G., Malecki, E.J. (2004), Networking
for Competitiveness, Small Business Economics, 23 (1): 71-84,
August 2004.
Klein, J.L., Manzagol, C., Tremblay, D.G., Rousseau, S. (2004),
University–Industry
Interrelations in Montreal in the Reconversion to the Knowledge
Economy,
Research Note no 2004-08A, Canada Research Chair on the Socio-Organizational
Challenges of the Knowledge Economy.
Lall, S. (2002), Social
Capital and Industrial Transformation, Queen Elizabeth House
Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 84.
Landry, R., Amara, N., Lamari, M. (2000), Does
Social Capital Determine Innovation? To What Extent?, Paper
presented at the 4th International Conference on Technology, Policy
and Innovation, Curitiba, Brazil, August 28-31 2000.
Landry, R., Amara, N., Lamari,
M. (2000), L’influence
du capital social sur les décisions d’innovation des
entreprises manufacturières, Département de science
politique
Université Laval, Québec.
Landry, R., Amara, N., Lamari, M. (2001), Social
Capital, Innovation and Public Policy, Canadian Journal of Policy
Research, Vol. 2, N.1 (Spring 2001).
Levin, D.Z., Cross, R. (2004), The
Strength of Weak Ties You Can Trust: The Mediating Role of Trust
in Effective Knowledge Transfer, Management Science, Vol. 50,
No. 11, November 2004, 1477–1490.
Lin, Y. (2004), Hacking
Practices and Software Development: A Social Worlds Analysis of
ICT Innovation and the Role of Free/Libre Open Source Software,
Unpublished PhD Thesis, Science and Technology Studies Unit, Department
of Sociology, University of York.
Malecki, E.J., Oinas, P. (1999), Making
Connections: Technological Learning and Regional Economic Change,
Leiden, The Netherlands,
Aldershot Ashgate.
Maxwell, J. (2003), Innovation
is a Social Process, Paper based on a speech delivered to the
Annual Economic Conference of Statistics Canada, May 6, 2002.
Mazzanti, M., Cainelli, G., Mancinelli, S. (2005), Social
Capital, R&D and Industrial Districts, Nota di Lavoro 84/2005,
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
Morgan, K, Lanadabaso, M., Oughton, C. (2003), Learning
Regions in Europe: Theory, Policy and Practice, in Gibson, D., Stolp,
C., Conceicao, P., Veitor, M.V. (eds) Systems
and Policies for the Global Learning Economy, Praeger, Westport
CT.
Morlacchi, P., Wilkinson, I.F.,
Young, L. (2004), Social
Networks of Researchers in Business To Business Marketing: A Case
Study of the IMP Group 1984-1999, SPRU Electronic Working Paper
Series, Paper No. 114, Science and Technology Policy Research Unit,
University of Sussex.
Nesta, L., Mangematin, V. (2004), The
Dynamics of Innovation Networks, SPRU Electronic Working Paper
Series, Paper No. 114, Science and Technology Policy Research Unit,
University of Sussex.
Network of Innovating Regions in Europe (2003), Report
on national networks of innovating regions, Innovation Relay
Centre and Innovating Regions in Europe Central Unit, Network of
Innovating Regions in Europe (IRE).
Nielsen, K. (2000), Social
Capital and Systemic Competitiveness, Research Paper no. 2/00,
Institut for Samfundsvidenskab og Erhvervsøkonomi,
Roskilde Universitetscenter.
Nielsen, K. (2003), Social
capital and the evaluation of innovation policies, International
Journal of Technology Management 2003 - Vol. 26, No.2/3/4 pp. 205
- 225.
Nooteboom, B., Gilsing, V.A. (2004), Density
and strength of ties in innovation networks: a competence and governance
view, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (ECIS) Working
Paper 04.01.
Norris, P. (2003), Social
Capital and ICTs: Widening or Reinforcing Social Networks?,
Paper presented at the International
Forum on Social Capital for Economic Revival, Japan in Tokyo,
24-25th March, 2003.
Oerlemans, L.A.G., Meeus, M.T.H., Boekema, F.W.M. (2001),
Innovation,
Organisational and Spatial Embeddedness: An Exploration of Determinants
and Effects, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (ECIS)
Working Paper 01.03.
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Parker, P. (2002), Social
Capital and Knowledge Development in Small Firms, Department
of Business Administration, Kristianstat University, mimeo.
Patton, D., Kenney, M. (2003), Innovation
and Social Capital in Silicon Valley, BRIE Working Paper 155,
University of California, Davis.
Reiche, S. (2004), Knowledge
Sharing Through Inpatriate Assignments in Multinational Companies:
A Social Capital Perspective, Australian Centre for International
Business, Working Paper No. 3, October 2004.
Robalino, D.A. (2000), Social
Capital, Technology Diffusion and Sustainable Growth in the Developing
World, RAND Corporation.
Robins, J., Atuahene-Gima, K. (2003), The
Effects of External Relationships on Innovative Activity within
Firms, City University of Hong Kong, mimeo.
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Steinmueller, W.E. (2004), ICTs
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Tamaschke, L. (2003), The
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Tremblay, D.G., Davel, E., Rolland, D. (2003), New
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Westlund, H. (2003), Implications
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Institute Cabinet Office, Japan, in Tokyo on 24 and 25th March 2003.
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