Technological Communities and Networks: Triggers and drivers by Dimitris Assimakopoulos

By Dimitris Assimakopoulos

The 1st ebook to investigate how new applied sciences are rising opposed to a historical past of constant globalization of study and improvement actions. This particular ebook explores how technological groups and networks form a wide diversity of latest laptop dependent applied sciences in neighborhood, nationwide and overseas contexts. supplying a critique of current organizational and enterprise versions, Assimakopoulos analyzes the constitution of a extensive diversity of present technological groups and networks a number parts together with: net safeguard digital copyright highbrow estate rights security geographic info structures. this article is a key source for examine and improvement managers, ICT engineers and coverage makers, in addition to submit graduate researchers in wisdom administration, know-how coverage, sociology and economics of innovation or heritage of technological know-how and know-how.

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Unlike the scholars reviewed in the previous section, Wenger and his collaborators focus on the local ‘situated’ nature of CoPs, within ‘low-tech’ apprenticeship communities. Claim processors in an insurance company, midwives, tailors, navy quartermasters and butchers were some of the communities that Wenger and his collaborators analysed in order to explain how newcomers learn from old-timers a certain work-related task embedded in the ongoing practice of a specific community. When a newcomer joins a CoP, instead of learning abstract knowledge, s/he learns to become a member of the community by developing relationships with more experienced members.

The net result of such ‘glocalised’ communities is faster upgrading of the Taiwanese semiconductor and micro-electronics industries for key application areas, such as personal computers and mobile phones, fostering continuous innovation and learning across technology generations, and sustaining superior technical and business performance against intensifying global competition. The growing integration of the technological communities of Silicon Valley and Hsinchu offers benefits to both economies.

Anomalies) developed on the basis of the paradigm usually generate controversy among members of the invisible college. Increased specialisation causes a decline in membership, and a paradigm which is overwhelmed by anomalies is usually replaced with a new paradigm. Communities as the social locus of practice 23 A handful of scientists of the invisible college set up in stage 2, together with a number of outsiders, usually initiate a new scientific revolution and set up a new invisible college or scientific community to undertake normal science according to a new paradigm.

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