Mapping Innovation Networks

Conway, Steve; Steward, Fred

doi:10.1142/s1363919698000110

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“…Aldrich and Herker (1977) highlight the importance of 'boundary spanning' skills in the way connections are made between separate social networks. Conway and Steward (1998) discuss the signi cance of the things that a network shares -particularly whether they are linked by a shared characteristic (forming an attribute network) or by a shared activity (forming a transaction network).…”

Section: W I D E R R E S E a R C H O N N E T W O R K Smentioning

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Community e-gateways: locating networks and learning for social inclusion

Liff¹,

Steward²

2001

Inf. Comm. Society

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A b s t r a c tThe provision of community e-gateways (community-based facilities providing public access to computers and the Internet) has been seen as a way to address the 'digital divide', particularly for people from deprived neighbourhoods. In the UK, policy and practitioner literature has stressed that for these centres to be successful they need to have strong social connections and be able to provide opportunities for interactive learning and content creation. Through a detailed analysis of one community e-gateway, which formed part of a wider study of public access provision, this article analyses the strengths and weaknesses of this advice drawing on broader sociological literature relating to social networks, network mapping and communities of practice. It concludes that greater attention needs to be paid to the signi cance of weak ties, two-way boundary spanning and the resource requirements of social networks for the policy objectives to be fully achieved. K e y w o r d se-gateway, community, networks, learning, public accessThe concept of the 'digital divide' -a gap between those sections of the population with access to computers and the Internet and those without -has been reported and articulated most clearly by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the US Department of Commerce. A series of reports, collectively entitled Falling Through the Net, have documented the changing pattern of Internet use. Notwithstanding increased use by all sections of the population, use still varies signi cantly by income, education, occupation, age and ethnicity. The division between the Internet use by men and women is the only one that seems likely to close in the short term. While the reports themselves do not articulate explicit policy measures to address the divide, they do make a clear case for policy intervention. For example, the summary of the most recent report

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Community e-gateways: locating networks and learning for social inclusion

Liff¹,

Steward²

2001

Inf. Comm. Society

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“…Moreover, they can involve a customer, a supplier or even a competitor (Chan and Heide, 1993). The literature has identified at least eight generic types of strategic alliance (Bleeke and Ernst, 1993;Gulati, 1995;Faulkner, 1995;Conway and Stewart, 1998): licensing, supplier relations, outsourcing, joint venture, collaboration (non-joint ventures), R&D consortia, industry clusters and innovation networks.…”

Section: An Examination Of the Evidence Of The Closed Innovation Prinmentioning

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Open Innovation: Old Ideas in a Fancy Tuxedo Remedy a False Dichotomy

Trott

Hartmann

2013

Open Innovation Research, Management and Practice

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“…Network and Alliance Evaluation Shaw and Conway (2000) suggest that small firm network research has examined three general areas: structural dimensions of small firm networks such as size, shape, range, centrality, density of actors (e.g., Conway and Steward 1998); case studies of small firms in existing industrial networks (e.g., Saxenian 1991); and, contributions of networks to small firm start up (e.g., Birley 1985). The alliance literature also has several fod, including: attributes of firms that join alliances; industry factors impelling alliance entry; and formation of and, to a lesser extent, performance of alliances (Gulati 1998).…”

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Wine Tourism Marketing Alliances Application of Importance—Performance Analysis

Randall¹,

Mitchell

2008

Tourism Recreation Research

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This study evaluates a collaborative wine tourism marketing alliance (Wine Islands Project) consisting of small to medium sized tourism enterprises (SMTEs) and wineries whose alliance forms part of the overall activities of a horizontally integrated wine network. An on-line questionnaire administered to Wine Islands Project partners in December 2006 asked respondents to rate importance and performance measures related to the potential outcomes of the Wine Islands Project. Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) revealed that the partners perceived the majority of measures as important, but underperforming relative to their importance. A segmentation of the sample using business type revealed that wineries rated the performance of the measures more highly than other businesses in the sample. Segmentation by business life stage revealed businesses in Life Stage 2 (6-8 years) and Life Stage 4 (16 plus years) perceived most measures as highly performing and those businesses in Life Stage 1 (0-5 years) and Life Stage 3 (9-15 years) rated most measures as underperforming relative to their importance. Findings suggest that segmenting results by business type and life stage adds valuable insights into understanding variability of perceptions of the performance of this marketing alliance. This should allow alliance and network managers to focus efforts to improve underperforming areas and, more importantly, identify those benefits that may act as incentives for tourism businesses to participate in such cooperative activities. This paper adds to our understanding of wine tourism marketing alliance and network development, and contributes to the SMTE literature by its application of IPA to examine the benefits of participation in a collaborative marketing activity.

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Mapping Innovation Networks

Cited by 61 publications

References 26 publications

Community e-gateways: locating networks and learning for social inclusion

Community e-gateways: locating networks and learning for social inclusion

Open Innovation: Old Ideas in a Fancy Tuxedo Remedy a False Dichotomy

Wine Tourism Marketing Alliances Application of Importance—Performance Analysis

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