Glossary
- Architectural control:
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Refers to innovation in high-technology systems and measures how the control over the architecture of the final product is concentrated within the hand of one (or few) agents (Prybeck et al. 1991). A concentrated architectural control can be found, for instance, in a high-tech industry where a dominant standard interface incorporates proprietary elements, such as telecommunications networks
- Heterogeneity:
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Relationships in an Innovation System span across very different kinds of agents, ranging from firms to scientists. In addition, each agent is endowed with specific features and a unique knowledge base
- Innovation system (IS):
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An analytical framework aimed at understanding how innovation is produced in a complex system of interacting agents. The IS approach, introduced by Lundvall (1985), is now especially used to study innovation at national or...
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Tomasello, M.V., Schweitzer, F. (2018). Innovator Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_368
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