Technological Communities and Networks

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 exist

1. Introduction 2. Communties as the Social Locus of Knowledge Intensive Technological Practice 3. Collaboration Networks as the Social Locus of Knowledge Intensive Technological Innovation 4. Ptolemaic Views of Personal Networks in Cross-National Innovation 5. An Astronomer's View of the Origins of a National GIS Community 6. A Regional Semiconductor Community and Academic Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley 7. Technological Communities and Networks: New Frontiers for Knowledge Intensive Innovation