Innovation Networks: Concepts And Challenges In The European Perspective (technology, Innovation And Policy (isi))

Innovation networks are a major source for acquiring new information and knowledge and thus for supporting innovation processes. Despite the many theoretical and empirical contributions to the explanation of networks, many questions still remain open. For example: How can networks, if they do not emerge by their own, be initiated? How can fragmentation in innovation systems be overcome? And how can can networking experience from market economies be transferred to the emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe? By presenting a selection of papers which address innovation networking from theoretical and political viewpoints, the book aims at giving answers to these questions. Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Networks in Innovation Research and Innovation Policy — An Introduction....Pages 3-23 Innovation by Networking: An Economic Perspective....Pages 25-34 Front Matter....Pages 35-35 Knowledge, Innovation Processes and Regions....Pages 37-51 Innovation Processes and the Role of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS)....Pages 53-68 Institutions of Technological Infrastructure (ITI) and the Generation and Diffusion of Knowledge....Pages 69-91 Innovative Links between Industry and Research Institutes — How Important Are They for Firm Start Ups in the Metropolitan Regions of Barcelona, Vienna and Stockholm?....Pages 93-108 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 Implementation of a Network Based Innovation Policy in Central and Eastern European Countries — Slovenia as an Example....Pages 111-126 Innovation Networking in a Transition Economy: Experiences from Slovenia....Pages 127-152 Integration through Industrial Networks in the Wider Europe: An Assessment Based on Survey of Research....Pages 153-174 East German Industrial Research: Improved Competitiveness through Innovative Networks....Pages 175-189 Innovation Networks and Regional Venture Capital Companies in Germany — Experiences for Central and Eastern European Countries....Pages 191-204 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 Innovation, Interaction and Regional Development: Structural Characteristics of Regional Innovation Strategies....Pages 207-222 Innovation Networks and Industrial Research in the New Federal States: Perspectives of Economy and Structural Policy....Pages 223-242 Innovation Networks and Regional Policy in Europe....Pages 243-273 Back Matter....Pages 275-284 Networks deal with people, with firms and other institutions, and with their social and economic interaction.