The use of social network analysis in innovation studies: Mapping actors and technologies

Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-17

  Van Der Valk, Tessa ^a   Gijsbers, Govert ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Communication; Innovation studies; Social network analysis; Technology networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049495443     PISSN: 14479338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/impp.12.1.5     Document Type: Article

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