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The theme of this research is to point out the influence of Growth of networks and organization change give co-inventors networks. Especially, change in central person’s role and generation of weak ties. I did two investigations. The first method is Network analysis. I made networks from co-inventors relation based on patents for which one company applied by using patent database. And each actor’s degree centrality and betweeness centrality in each fiscal year were examined. Second method is interview. As a result (1) When scale of the enterprise is small, only two inventors had relations with a lot of another inventors, and they were mediated between another inventors. (2) When scale of the enterprise grows, their relations of co-inventors has decrease, but they were playing role of mediation between another inventors by using networks that they established in old times.
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Takagi, S., Toyama, R. (2008). On Growth of Network and Centrality’s Change Analysis of Co-inventors Network in Enterprise. In: Lytras, M.D., et al. The Open Knowlege Society. A Computer Science and Information Systems Manifesto. WSKS 2008. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87783-7_53
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