Innovation Networks New Approaches in Modelling and Analyzing /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pyka, Andreas (Editor), Scharnhorst, Andrea (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Electrical engineering.; Economic theory.; Social sciences.; Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

The science of graphs and networks has become by now a well-established tool for modelling and analyzing a variety of systems with a large number of interacting components. Starting from the physical sciences, applications have spread rapidly to the natural and social sciences, as well as to economi...

Table of Contents:

• Innovation networks in economics
• Knowledge Networks: Structure and Dynamics
• Death of Distance in Science? A Gravity Approach to Research Collaboration
• Evolution and Dynamics of Networks in #x2018;Regional Innovation Systems#x2019; (RIS)
• Agent-Based Modelling of Innovation Networks #x2013; The Fairytale of Spillover
• Structural Holes, Innovation and the Distribution of Ideas
• Introduction: Network Perspectives on Innovations: Innovative Networks #x2013; Network Innovation
• Innovation networks in complex theories
• Tools from Statistical Physics for the Analysis of Social Networks
• Modeling Evolving Innovation Networks
• Propagation of Innovations in Complex Patterns of Interaction
• Sensitive Networks #x2013; Modelling Self-Organization and Innovation Processes in Networks.