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Social networks as factors for innovations : doktorska disertacija
Victor Cepoi, 2018, doctoral dissertation

Abstract: In the new local-global interconnection, nation states are losing their influence and legitimacy, while economic and cultural transformations are reconfiguring spatial formations. Going in line with the global trends, regions grasp more importance in shaping the political, economic and social environments. As a result, the regional level has an important role in creating a proper socio-economic framework for innovation development, which is considered one the engines of development. Relying on the theory of Social fields, the research considers three social forces (networks, institutions, and cognitive frames) as an alternative explanation for innovation processes, by encompassing the aspects of different social fields on the regional level. Consequently, within this dissertation we approach regional innovation systems as an analytical unit for exploring innovation performance of a regional environment. As case studies, we selected seven regions with different levels of innovation performance. The analysis of the semi-structured interviews and the Qualitative Comparative Analysis emphasized the social forces are a special component for explaining innovation processes in the selected case studies. Nonetheless, the results offer insights for regional mechanisms within the innovation performance with the focus on an approach toward innovation that is beyond simple economics.
Keywords: Regional Systems of Innovations, Networks, Social Field, Social Forces, Qualitative Comparative analysis
Published in ReVIS: 17.02.2020; Views: 2804; Downloads: 93
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