The first book to analyze how new technologies are emerging against a background of continuing globalization of research and development activities. This unique book explores how technological communities and networks shape a broad range of new computer based technologies in regional, national and international contexts. Offering a critique of existing organizational and business models, Assimakopoulos analyzes the structure of a broad range of existing technological communities and networks looking at a range of areas including: Internet security electronic copyright intellectual property rights protection geographic information systems. This text is a key resource for research and development managers, ICT engineers and policy makers, as well as post graduate researchers in knowledge management, technology policy, sociology and economics of innovation or history of science and technology. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

List of figures	xi
List of graphs	xiii
List of tables	xv
List of abbreviations and acronyms	xvii
Prologue and acknowledgements	xix
1 Introduction	1
2 Communities as the social locus of knowledge-intensive technological practice	14
3 Collaboration networks as the social locus of knowledge-intensive technological innovation	33
4 Ptolemaic views of personal networks in cross-national innovation	51
5 An astronomer's view of the origins of a national GIS community	91
6 A regional semiconductor community and academic entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley	130
7 Technological communities and networks: new frontiers for knowledge-intensive innovation	184
Appendix SNA concepts and metrics	200
Glossary of SNA terminology	203
References	205
Author index	219
Subject index	223

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