Establishing a framework for collaborative innovation processe in a technological district in Italy

International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 141-150

  Sofo, Francesco ^a   Volpentesta, Antonio P ^b   Ammirato, Salvatore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Innovation projects; Italy; Technological district; Virtual breeding environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649875354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18323669     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.18848/1832-3669/cgp/v04i01/55817     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (31)

1. Andrews, D., Conway, J., Dawson, M., Lewis, M., McMaster, J., Morgan, A., & Starr, H. (2004). School Revitalisation: The IDEAS Way. ACEA Monograph Series No. 34. Australian Council for Educational Leaders: Winmalee.
2. Antonelli, C. (2000). Collective Knowledge Communication and Innovation: The Evidence of Technological Districts, Regional Studies, 34(6), 535 -547.
3. Begley, P. (2001). In pursuit of authentic school leadership practices. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 4(4), 353-365.
4. Begley, P. (2004). Understanding Valuation Processes: Exploring the Linkage between Motivation and Action, International Studies of Educational Administration 32(2), 4-17.
5. Burnes, B., Cooper, C. & West, P. (2003). Organisational learning: the new management paradigm? Management Decision, 41(5), 452-464.
6. Bussey, L. (2006). "Measuring the Instructional Leadership Values And Beliefs of School Leaders" in Values and ethics in Educational Administration, 4(3), 1-7, Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University USA, accessed online 23/8/07, http://www.ed.psu.edu/uceacsle/.
7. Camarinha-Matos, L., Afsarmanesh, H. & Ollus, M. (2005). ECOLEAD: A holistic approach to creation and management of dynamic virtual organisations. In Camarinha-Matos, L., Afsarmanesh, H. & Ollus, M. (Eds.). Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environment. Boston: Springer, 3-16.
8. Camarinha-Matos, L., & Afsarmanesh, H. (2005). A framework for management of Virtual Organisation Breeding environments. In Camarinha-Matos, L., Afsarmanesh, H. & Ollus, M. (Eds.). Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environment. Boston: Springer, 35-48.
9. Fullan, M. (2001). Leading in a Culture of Change, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
10. Katzy, B. & Crowston, K. (2001). A process theory of competency rallying in engineering projects retrieved at http://crowston.syr.edu/papers/virtual-short.pdf accessed on 3 March 2007.
11. Katzy, B., Sung, G. (2003). State of the art of Virtual Organisation Modeling. In Proceedings of eChallenges Conference- Building the Knowledge Economy. Bologna, Italy, 22-24 October 2003.
12. Lakomski, G 2001, 'Organisational change, leadership and learning: culture as cognitive process', International Journal of Educational Management, 15(2), 68-77.
13. Lewis, J. (2001). 'Principalship of the future: how to get there from here', The Practising Administrator, 3, 4-7 & 41.
14. Lundberg, C. (1988). Working with Culture, Journal of Organisational Change Management, 2, 38-47.
15. Marquardt, M. (2002) Building the Learning Organization: mastering the 5 Elements for Corporate Learning, Palo Alto, California: Davies-Black.
16. Millar, C., Choi, C. & Chu, R. (2005). The state in science, technology and innovation districts: conceptual models for China. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 17(3), 367-373.
17. Nalebuff, B.J. & Brandenburger, A. M. (1997). Coopetition. London: Harper Collins Business.
18. Patrucco, P. (2003). Institutional Variety, Networking and Knowledge Exchange: Communication and Innovation in the Case of the Brianza Technological District. Regional Studies, 37(2), 159-172.
19. Quintana-García, C. & Benavides-Velasco, C. (2003). Agglomeration economies and vertical alliances: the route to product innovation in biotechnology firms, International Journal of Production Research, 43(22), 4853-4873.
20. Ribbins, P. & Gronn, P. (2000). Researching principals: context and culture in the study of leadership in schools. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, (20)2, 34-45.
21. Richmon, M. (2003). Persistent difficulties with values in educational administration: mapping the terrain. In Begley, P. & Johansson, O. (Eds.) The ethical dimensions of school leadership, Kluwer Academic, 33-47.
22. Schuh, G., Millarg, K. & Göransson, A. (1998). Die Virtual Factory . Stuttgart: Hanser Verlag.
23. Senge, P. (2006). The fifth discipline: the art and practice of the learning organisation. Melbourne: Random House.
24. Sofo, F. (1999). Human Resource Development: perspectives, roles and practice choices. Sydney: Business and Professional Publishing.
25. Sofo, F. (2007). Development in people and organisations is the key to business success. Paper presented at the 23rd EGOS Colloquium Beyond Waltz - Dances of Individuals and Organisation, Vienna, 5-7 July.
26. Starke-Meyerring, D. & Andrews, D. (2006). Building a shared virtual learning culture. Business Communication Quarterly, 69(1), 25-49.
27. Starr, H. (2004). School Revitalisation: The IDEAS Way. ACEA Monograph Series No. 34. Winmalee: Australian Council for Educational Leaders.
28. Volpentesta, A. (2007). Hypernetworks in a directed hypergraph, (in press) European Journal of Operational Research.
29. Volpentesta, A. & Muzzupappa, M. (2005). The formation of collaborative chains for conceptual design. In Camarinha- Matos, L., Afsarmanesh, H. & Ollus, M. (Eds.). Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environment. Boston: Springer, 89-96.
30. Volpentesta, A. & Muzzupappa, M. (2006). Identifying partners and organisational logical structures for collaborative conceptual design. In Camarinha-Matos, L., Afsarmanesh, H. & Ollus, M. (Eds.). Network-Centric Collaboration and Supporting Frameworks, Boston: Springer, 397-406.
31. Walker, A. & Shuangye, C. (2007). Leader authenticity in intercultural school contexts in Educational Management Administration & Leadership. 35(2), 185-204.