Taken from The Proceedings of the XIX ISPIM Conference, Tours, France - 15-18 June 2008 ISBN 978-952-214-594-9.
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The Role of Firms in Multi-level Innovation Networks
Abstract
Innovation is a complex, interactive learning process in which industry, science and government actors collaborate in networks to generate economically useful new knowledge. Open innovation focuses on how organizations can exploit external knowledge linkages to drive innovation performance. From an institutional perspective, the role of innovation policy is to develop instruments to actively stimulate and coordinate collaborative science-industry R&D networks on multiple, interacting policy levels. Thus, knowledge about technology specific collaboration structures and pivotal network actors is essential for policy-makers. Based on data about publicly funded science-industry R&D programmes in the Vienna multi-level urban innovation system, we analyze the emerging fabric of the multi-level collaboration networks of two different R&D areas, Life Sciences and Transport/Mobility. Methods of social network analysis are applied to show how collaboration structures differ between technology fields and which are the most relevant network actors.
Keywords
urban innovation systems; R&D collaboration; science-industry relations; innovation networks; social network analysis; centrality measures; network governance