Communities and Technologies Conference
Communities Vs Networks, as the extremes of a continuum of social containers for innovation
Our research and workshop proposal comes from the observation that in much of the scientific literature in the field of sociology of innovation, the concept of community and the concept of network are used in a very undifferentiated way.
This workshop proposal aims at raising the reflection and discussion about the opportunity of differentiating the use of these concepts, linking them to the concept of innovation in an original way: if communities represents social containers for specialization-based (and hence linear) innovation, networks are the place for boundary spanning learning and, as a consequence, for breakthrough innovation.
The objective of the proposed workshop is that of shaping a new research and knowledge exchange network, not only to shape original theoretic perspectives but also to reflect upon possible new application fields or case studies.
Think! and Link!!
Our research and workshop proposal comes from the observation that in much of the scientific literature in the field of sociology of innovation, the concept of community and the concept of network are used in a very undifferentiated way.
This workshop proposal aims at raising the reflection and discussion about the opportunity of differentiating the use of these concepts, linking them to the concept of innovation in an original way: if communities represents social containers for specialization-based (and hence linear) innovation, networks are the place for boundary spanning learning and, as a consequence, for breakthrough innovation.
The objective of the proposed workshop is that of shaping a new research and knowledge exchange network, not only to shape original theoretic perspectives but also to reflect upon possible new application fields or case studies.
Think! and Link!!
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
