Technological Communities and Networks: Triggers and Drivers for Innovation

By Dimitris Assimakopoulos

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138983764
• ISBN13: 9781138983762
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"