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This volume examines the nature of interfirm networks and their role in promoting industrial competitiveness. Where previous work in this area has tended to be descriptive, the distinguished contributors to this volume present a balanced theoretical and empirical approach to interfirm networking drawing on a variety of international case studies. Issues covered include:* The role of networks in regulating conflict and producing co-operation* The role of networks in developing knowledge and competences* Network governance and conflict intensive networks

Trade theory --- Business policy --- Business networks. --- Réseaux d'affaires --- Réseaux d'affaires --- Business networking --- Networking, Business --- Networks, Business --- Social networks --- Industrial clusters --- Strategic alliances (Business)

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Social networks. --- 316.32 --- 316.34 --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Social exchange. --- Social structure. --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Interpersonal relations --- Social interaction --- Social psychology --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Globale samenlevingsvormen --- Sociale differentiatie. Sociale typologie. Sociale stratificatie --- Exchange theory (Sociology). --- 316.32 Globale samenlevingsvormen --- Social exchange --- Social networks --- Social structure

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 Both firms, keen to improve their competitiveness, and governments, keen to exploit new sources of economic and social progress, need to understand how innovation works in order to better stimulate it. The paradox of innovation is that it uses co-operation to enhance competition and to link many different actors in innovative clusters. In a knowledge-based economy, these clusters of innovative firms form around sources of knowledge. They are based on a sophisticated infrastructure in which knowledge is developed, shared and exchanged, and are characterised by highly concentrated and effective links between entrepreneurs, investors and researchers. Clusters can take a variety of forms, depending on their main technological and commercial areas of specialization. In most cases they operate within localized geographical areas and interact within larger innovation systems at the regional, national and international level. With globalization, dynamic clusters are becoming key factors in a country’s capacity to attract the international investment that generates new technological expertise, to interest investors in innovation (venture capital, etc.) and to benefit from the international mobility of skilled personnel. This book reviews the latest economic research on these issues, shows how technology policy makers in OECD countries are making practical use of the concept of clusters and suggests how government policies to foster innovation might best be refocused.

Economic production --- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development --- Technological innovations. --- Creative ability in business. --- Business networks. --- Business networking --- Networking, Business --- Networks, Business --- Social networks --- Industrial clusters --- Strategic alliances (Business) --- Business creativity --- Business --- Success in business --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer

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Methods in social research (general) --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- #SBIB:39A2 --- #SBIB:303H34 --- #SBIB:303H12 --- #SBIB:HIVA --- Ethnology --- -Social networks --- -Spatial behavior --- -Behavior, Spatial --- Proxemic behavior --- Space behavior --- Spatially-oriented behavior --- Psychology --- Space and time --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Kwalitatieve methoden: grondige gevallenstudie, casework, social work --- Methoden en technieken: sociale wetenschappen --- Research --- Social networks --- Spatial behavior --- Research. --- -Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Behavior, Spatial

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Work Organization has achieved recent prominence in European policy, as new employment guidelines are embodied in the policies of all European Member States. New forms of Work Organization, properly understood, offer collaborative competitive advantage to European enterprises. This book, based on decades of action research in separate European nations, identifies the research background from which these new insights and policy initiatives have emerged, with continuing lessons to be learned from differences.Work Organization is the missing link which enables innovation and training to pro

Industrial concentration --- Business networks --- Labor supply --- Regional economics --- Concentration industrielle --- Réseaux d'affaires --- Economie régionale --- Case studies --- Cas, Etude de --- Etudes de cas --- Europe --- Economic conditions --- Regional disparities --- Conditions économiques --- Disparités régionales --- Cas, Etude --- Arbeidsorganisatie 331.103 --- Bedrijfsleven 658:338 --- Netwerken 519.876.3 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A520 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A555 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A470 --- Organisatiesociologie: arbeidssituatie en arbeidsomstandigheden: algemeen --- Partijen en strategieën in de onderneming: patronaat en werkstructurering, werkoverleg, taakverruiming, humanisering --- Arbeidssociologie: het sociaal-economisch overheidsbeleid: algemeen --- Business networks -- Europe -- Case studies. --- Europe -- Economic conditions -- 1945- -- Regional disparities -- Case studies. --- Industrial concentration -- Europe -- Case studies. --- Labor supply -- Europe -- Case studies. --- Regional economics -- Case studies. --- Industrial Management --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Réseaux d'affaires --- Economie régionale --- Conditions économiques --- Disparités régionales --- Labor force --- Labor force participation --- Labor pool --- Work force --- Workforce --- Business networking --- Networking, Business --- Networks, Business --- Combinations, Industrial --- Concentration, Industrial --- Economic concentration --- Labor market --- Human capital --- Labor mobility --- Manpower --- Manpower policy --- Social networks --- Industrial clusters --- Strategic alliances (Business) --- Big business --- Duopolies --- Oligopolies --- Trusts, Industrial --- Competition --- Consolidation and merger of corporations --- Industrial organization