Innovation Networks in Industries

Edited by Franco Malerba, Professor of Applied Economics, Department of Management and Technology and President of ICRIOS , Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and Nicholas S. Vonortas, Professor, Center for International Science and Technology Policy & Department of Economics, The George Washington University, US

• Contents:Preface1. Innovation Networks in Industries and Sectoral Systems: An IntroductionFranco Malerba and Nicholas S. Vonortas PART I: THE CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE2. Innovation Networks in IndustryNicholas S. Vonortas 3. The Dynamics of Networks and the Evolution of Industries: A Survey of the Empirical LiteratureLorenzo Zirulia PART II: VARIETY OF NETWORKS IN INDUSTRIES AND SECTORAL SYSTEMS 4. Measuring the Corporate Web of Science: Research and Partnership Networks within the European Pharmaceutical IndustryRobert J.W. Tijssen 5. Knowledge Search and Strategic Alliance: Evidence from the Electronics Industry Stefano Breschi, Lorenzo Cassi and Franco Malerba 6. Partnership Networks and Knowledge Networks in Five SectorsKoichiro Okamura and Nicholas S. Vonortas 7. What do you Mean by ‘Mobile’? Multi-applicant Inventors in the European Biotechnology IndustryFrancesco Laforgia and Francesco Lissoni 8. Science as a Communications Network: An Illustration of Nanoscale Science ResearchCaroline S. Wagner and Susan A. MohrmanPART III: PUBLIC POLICIES FOR NETWORKING IN ICT 9. European Policy Favouring Networks in ICTStefano Breschi, Lorenzo Cassi, Franco Malerba and Nicholas S. Vonortas10. Evaluating the Links between Research and Deployment Networks of Innovation in Information Society in EuropeLorenzo Cassi, Nicoletta Corrocher, Franco Malerba and Nicholas S. VonortasIndex