Digital innovation : innovation processes in virtual clusters and digital regions / editors, Giuseppina Passiante, Valerio Elia, Tommaso Massari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Passiante, Giuseppina.

Elia, Valerio.

Massari, Tommaso.

Series:

Series on Technology Management

Series on technology management ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Digital communications--Economic aspects.

Digital communications.

Information superhighway--Economic aspects.

Information superhighway.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents: The results of an empirical analysis of the new phenomenon of virtual clusters (VCs), which highlight the dynamics of these emerging innovation networks in the digital economy; the challenges that this dynamics represents for the conventional theories, which are unable to define a comprehensive framework that supports the development of these networks. An overview of the most significant theoretical approaches to innovation networks, and their rethinking in the digital economy scenario. Following a neo-Schumpeterian approach, a particular focus is on the opportunity to in

Contents:

Contents; Introduction to Digital Innovation; Structure of the book; References; Chapter Summaries; Chapter 1 Industrial Clusters in the Net-Economy: Empirical Evidence and Some Theoretical Approaches; Chapter 2 A Strategy to Sustain the Development Processes of a ""Smart Community"" in the Digital Economy; Chapter 3 A Knowledge Hub for Regional Development; Chapter 4 Net Economy Business Models for SMEs Operating in Fragmented Markets; Chapter 5 Towards Digital innovation Leadership; 1 Industrial Clusters in the Net-Economy: Empirical Evidence and Some Theoretical Approaches

1.1. Introduction1.2. Some Seminal and Consolidated Approaches to the Analysis of Industrial Clusters; 1.2.1. The Marshall-based approaches; 1.2.2. Porter's approach; 1.2.3. The evolutionary approaches; 1.3. Emerging Virtual Industrial Clusters: Some Empirical Evidence; 1.3.1. The typical configuration of a VC member: the Internetworked Enterprise (IE); 1.3.2. The lE's learning processes; 1.3.3. Some stylised facts of the IE learning environment; 1.4. VCs as New Patterns of Economic Activity: Towards the Virtual Innovation System; 1.5. Conclusions; References

Appendix: An overview of the case studiesBorland Software Corporation; DHL; Elettrodata; Fineco; Internet Bookshop Italia (IBS); Wine; 2 A Strategy to Sustain the Development Processes of a ""Smart Community"" in the Digital Economy; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. A New Techno-Economic Paradigm: The Digital Economy; 2.2.1. Globalisation processes in the Digital Economy; 2.2.2. Knowledge and knowledge assets in the Digital Economy; 2.3. The Conceptual Framework for Setting Up a Smart Community; 2.3.1. Regional innovation in the Digital Economy

2.3.2. Networks of innovation and network externalities2.3.3. Implications for technology policy at regional level; 2.4. The ""Smart Community"" Model; 2.4.1. The region-enterprise metaphor; 2.4.2. Towards a Smart Community; 2.4.3. The action plan to develop a Smart Community; 2.5. Conclusions; References; 3 A Knowledge Hub for Regional Development; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Leadership in Regional Innovation; 3.3. The Cycle of Regional Innovation Leadership (RIL); 3.4. An Outline of the Values Proposed for the Regional Development-Oriented Knowledge Hub (KH) Initiative

3.5. The Regional Development-Oriented Knowledge Hub: Main Functions3.6. Conclusions; References; 4 Net Economy Business Models for SMEs Operating in Fragmented Markets; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The ""OpenMarkets"" Model For European SMEs; 4.2.1 A new technological and business scenario for SMEs; 4.2.2 e-Business in fragmented markets; 4.2.3 OpenMarkets, an open-source B2B marketplace; 4.2.4 Benefits of the ""OpenMarkets"" model for European SMEs; 4.3 A Federated-Distributed Model for the Tourism Sector; 4.3.1 The nature of the travel industry

4.3.2 The role of information and communication technologies

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611865740

9781281865748

1281865745

9781848160019

1848160011