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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.

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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.

• Østerlund, C., Carlile, P. (2003), How practice matters: a relational view of knowledge sharing, in Huysman, M., Wenger, E., Wulf, W. (eds), Communities and technologies, Deventer, Kluwer B.V.

• 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.

• Rosson, M.B., Carroll, J.M. (2003), Learning and collaboration across generations in a community, in Huysman, M., Wenger, E., Wulf, W. (eds), Communities and technologies, Deventer, Kluwer B.V.

• Ruuska, I, Vartiainen, M. (2003), Communities and other social structures for knowledge sharing: a case study in an internet consultancy company, in Huysman, M., Wenger, E., Wulf, W. (eds), Communities and technologies, Deventer, Kluwer B.V.

• Ruuskanen, P. (2004), Social capital and innovations in small and medium sized enterprises, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, mimeo.

• Steinmueller, W.E. (2004), ICTs and Social Capital, Paper presented at the DRUID Winter Conference, 22-24 January 2004.

• Tamaschke, L. (2003), The role of social capital in regional technological innovation: seeing both the wood and the trees, in Huysman, M., Wenger, E., Wulf, W. (eds), Communities and technologies, Deventer, Kluwer B.V.

• Tremblay, D.G. (2004), Virtual Communities of Practice: Towards New Modes of Learning and Knowledge Creation?, Research Note no 2004-05, Canada Research Chair on the Socio-Organizational Challenges of the Knowledge Economy.

• Tremblay, D.G., Davel, E., Rolland, D. (2003), New Management Forms For The Knowledge Economy? HRM In The Context Of Teamwork And Participation, Research Note of the Canada Research Chair on the Socio-Organizational Challenges of the Knowledge Economy.

• Tura, T. and Harmaakorpi, V. (2003), Social Capital in Building Regional Innovative Capability: A Theoretical and Conceptual Assessment, Paper presented at the 43rd Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA). Jyväskylä Finland, 27-30 August 2003.

• Upadhyayula, R., Kumar, R. (2004), Social Capital as an Antecedent of Absorptive Capacity of Firms, Paper presented at the DRUID summer conference 2004, Industrial Dynamics, Innovation and Development, Helsingør, June 14 - 16, 2004.

• Van den Hooff, B., Elving, W., Meeuwsen, J.M., Dumoulin, C. (2003), Knowledge sharing in knowledge communities, in Huysman, M., Wenger, E., Wulf, W. (eds), Communities and technologies, Deventer, Kluwer B.V.

• Vanhaverbeke, W., Duysters, G., Beerkens, B. (2001), Technological capability building through networking strategies within high-tech industries, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven Centre of Innovation Studies Working Paper n. 48.

• Westlund, H. (2003), Implications of Social Capital for Business in the Knowledge Economy: Theoretical Considerations, Presented for the International Forum on Economic Implication of Social Capital, held by the Economic and Social Research Institute Cabinet Office, Japan, in Tokyo on 24 and 25th March 2003.

• Yli-Renko, H., Autio, E., Tontti, V. (2000), Social Capital, Knowledge and the International Growth of Technology-Based New Firms, Helsinki Institute of Technology Institute of Strategy and International Business Working Paper Series 2000/4.

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