Technological Communities And Networks Origins, Evolution, Action And Structure

Research has shown that technological evolution in key application areas for a competitive future increasingly requires a sustained focus on the '¬~invisible hands' of technological communities of actors and their variegated networks. This book seeks to look at what is distinctive about these communities, how they shape a broad range of new computer based technologies and why they are destined to gain increased importance in explaining how these new technologies emerge.Through analysing the structure of a broad range of existing technological communities and networks, Assimakopoulos argues that it is from collective community based efforts rather than individual work that technological revolutions spring. Such an argument offers an implied critique of existing organisational and business models.This book will be of great interestto research and development managers,ICT engineers and policy makers, as well as post graduate researchers in knowledge management, technology policy, sociology,the economics of innovationand thehistory of science and technology.Assimakopoulos, Dimitris is the author of 'Technological Communities And Networks Origins, Evolution, Action And Structure', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415334808 and ISBN 0415334802.