Cooperation networks and innovation: A complex systems perspective to the analysis and evaluation of a regional innovation policy programme

Evaluation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-99

  Russo, Margherita ^a   Rossi, Federica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Evaluation; Innovation policy and cooperation networks; Regional development; SMEs production systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149500163     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389008097872     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Agar, M. (1996) The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
2. Agar, M. (2004) 'We have Met the Other and we're All Nonlinear: Ethnography as a Nonlinear Dynamic System', Complexity 10 (2). 16-24.
3. Audretsch, D. (2002) 'Entrepreneurship: A Survey of the Literature'. URL (consulted June 2008). http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/entrepreneurship/ green-paper/literature-survey-2002.pdf
4. Bellandi, M. and M. Di Tommaso (2006) 'The Local Dimensions of Industrial Policy', in P. Bianchi and S. Labory (eds) International Handbook on Industrial Policy, pp. 342-61. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
5. Breschi, S. and F. Malerba (1997) 'Sectoral Innovation Systems: Technological Regimes, Schumpeterian Dynamics and Spatial Boundaries', in C. Edquist (ed.) Systems of Innovation: Technologies, Institutions and Organizations, pp. 130-56. London and Washington, DC: Pinter.
6. Brusco, S. (1999) 'The Rules of the Game in Industrial Districts', in A. Grandori (ed.) Interfirm Networks: Organization and Industrial Competitiveness, pp. 17-40. London and New York: Routledge.
7. Brusco, S. (2008) I distretti industriali: Lezioni per lo sviluppo. Una lettera e nove saggi (1990-2002), ed. A. Natali, M. Russo and G. Solinas. Bologna: Il Mulino.
8. Cooke, P. (2001) 'Regional Innovation Systems, Clusters and the Knowledge Economy', Industrial and Corporate Change 10: 945-73.
9. Degenne, A. and M. Forsé (1999) Introducing Social Networks. London: SAGE.
10. Ehrenberg, E. and S. Jacobsson (1997) 'Technological Discontinuities and Incumbents' Performance: An Analytical Framework', in C. Edquist (ed.) Systems of Innovation: Technologies, Institutions and Organizations, pp. 318-41. London and Washington, DC: Pinter.
11. European Commission (1995) 'Green Paper on Innovation', COM (1995) 688.
12. European Commission (1996) 'First Action Plan for Innovation in Europe', COM (1995) 688.
13. European Commission (2003 a) 'Green Paper on Entrepreneurship', COM (2003) 27.
14. European Commission (2003 b) 'Innovation Policy: Updating the Union's Approach in the Context of the Lisbon Strategy', COM (2003) 112.
15. European Commission (2003 c) 'Investing in Research: An Action Plan for Europe', COM (2003) 226.
16. European Council (2000 a) 'Council Decision on a Multiannual Programme for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, and in Particular for Small and Medium Enterprises'.
17. European Council (2000 b) 'Presidency Conclusions', Lisbon European Council, 23-24 March.
18. European Council (2005) 'Presidency Conclusions', Brussels European Council, 22-23 March.
19. Freeman, C. (1988) 'Japan: A New National System of Innovation?', in G. Dosi, C. Freeman, R. R. Nelson, G. Silverberg and L. Soete (eds) Technical Change and Economic Theory, pp. 330-48. London and Washington, DC: Pinter.
20. Freeman, L.C. (1979) 'Centrality in Social Networks: I. Conceptual Clarification', Social Networks 1: 215-39.
21. Freeman, L.C. (2000) 'Visualizing Social Networks', Carnegie Mellon: Journal of Social Structure. URL (consulted June 2008). http://www.cmu.edu/joss/ content/articles/volume1/Freeman.html
22. Lane, D.A. (2005) 'Level Hierarchies in Agent-Artifact Space', in D. Pumain (ed.) Hierarchies in Natural and Social Systems, pp. 81-120. Amsterdam: Kluwer.
23. Lane, D.A. and R. Maxfield (1997) 'Foresight Complexity and Strategy', in W. B. Arthur, S. Durlauf and D. A. Lane (eds) The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II, pp. 177-98. Redwood City, CA: Addison Wesley.
24. Lane, D.A. and R. Maxfield (2005) 'Ontological Uncertainty and Innovation', Journal of Evolutionary Economics 15: 3-50.
25. Lane, D.A., F. Malerba, R. Maxfield and L. Orsenigo (1996) 'Choice and Action', Journal of Evolutionary Economics 6: 43-76.
26. Lundvall, B.-A. (1985) Product Innovation and User-Producer Interaction. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.
27. Lundvall, B.-A. (1988) 'Innovation as an Interactive Process: From User-Producer Interaction to the National System of Innovation', in G. Dosi, C. Freeman, R. R. Nelson, G. Silverberg and L. Soete (eds) Technical Change and Economic Theory, pp. 349-69. London and Washington, DC: Pinter.
28. Lundvall, B.-A. (1992) 'User-Producer Relationships, National Systems of Innovation and Internationalization', in B.- A. Lundvall (ed.) National Systems of Innovation. London: Pinter.
29. Moody, J. and D.R. White (2003) 'Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Concept of Social Groups', American Sociological Review 68 (1). 103-27.
30. Mytelka, L. and K. Smith (2002) 'Policy Learning and Innovation Theory: An Interactive and Co-evolving Process', Research Policy 31: 1467-79.
31. Natali, A. (2006) 'Le lezioni estratte', in Lo sviluppo ai margini: Due anni sul campo a sostegno di progetti integrati in aree periferiche del Mezzogiorno, pp. 10-26, in Studiare Sviluppo - Dipartimento per le Politiche di Sviluppo, Rome. Available at URL (consulted June 2008). http://www.dps.mef.gov. it/documentazione/docs/2006/1865-Losviluppoaimargini.pdf
32. Nelson, R.R. (1988) 'Institutions Supporting Technical Change in the United States', in G. Dosi, C. Freeman, R. R. Nelson, G. Silverberg and L. Soete (eds) Technical Change and Economic Theory, London and Washington, DC: Pinter.
33. Nelson, R. R., ed. (1993) National Innovation Systems: A Comparative Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
34. Nooteboom, B. (2004) Inter-Firm Collaboration, Learning and Networks: An Integrated Approach. London and New York: Routledge.
35. Powell, W.W. (1996) 'Inter-Organizational Collaboration in the Biotechnology Industry', Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 120 (1). 197-215.
36. Richardson, G.B. (1972) 'The Organization of Industry', Economic Journal 82: 883-96.
37. Rosenberg, N. (1996) 'Uncertainty and Technological Change', in R. Landau, T. Taylor and G. Wright (eds) The Mosaic of Economic Growth, pp. 334-53. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
38. Russo, M. (2000) 'Complementary Innovations and Generative Relationships: An Ethnographic Study', Economics of Innovation and New Technology 9: 517-57.
39. Saxenian, A. (1994) Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
40. Spradley, J.P. (1979) The Ethnographic Interview. New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Colle ge.
41. van der Leeuw, S.E. (1981) 'Information Flows, Flow Structures and the Explanation of Change in Human Institutions', in S. E. van der Leeuw (ed.) Archaeological Approaches to the Study of Complexity, pp. 230-329. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.
42. Von Hippel (1988) The Sources of Innovation. New York: Oxford University Press.
43. Wasserman, S. and K. Faust (1994) Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.