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Networks in Innovation Research and Innovation Policy — An Introduction

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Innovation Networks

Part of the book series: Technology, Innovation and Policy ((3217,volume 12))

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Networks deal with people, with firms and other institutions, and with their social and economic interaction. Economic and social networks are, of course, affected by physical networks like the Internet, telecommunication and traffic networks. Although important, the latter are not the subject of further discussion here. Social and economic networking is not a new phenomenon, but the basis of early trade which developed several thousand years ago, and, perhaps even more important, of urbanisation, the root of modern civilisation. In recent years, networking became an important subject in deductive and inductive theoretical disquisitions as well as in policy actions.

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Koschatzky, K. (2001). Networks in Innovation Research and Innovation Policy — An Introduction. In: Koschatzky, K., Kulicke, M., Zenker, A. (eds) Innovation Networks. Technology, Innovation and Policy, vol 12. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57610-2_1

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