Collaboration networks linking firms, universities and local governments have since the 1990s been considered the loci of innovation. In recent years, a number of policy interventions were put in place to favor the development of such innovation networks throughout Europe. In Italy for instance, an increasing number of technological districts was established by fiat in mid-2000. The paper takes the perspective of behavioral additionality to evaluate to what extent the institution of technological districts has persistently altered the patterns of collaboration among actors so favoring innovative behaviors. Our aim is to present a dynamic social network analysis to identify the changes occurred in the pattern of collaborations over time by using secondary data related to the co-participation of actors in research projects undertaken by an Italian district in the period 2005-2012. In particular, at each time point, a pre-specified blockmodeling is proposed as a strategy to verify the distance between the observed data and an expected ideal core-periphery configuration.

Evaluating cooperative behaviours in innovation networks: a pre-specified blockmodeling analysis.

PROTA, LAURA;VITALE, MARIA PROSPERINA
2012-01-01

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Collaboration networks linking firms, universities and local governments have since the 1990s been considered the loci of innovation. In recent years, a number of policy interventions were put in place to favor the development of such innovation networks throughout Europe. In Italy for instance, an increasing number of technological districts was established by fiat in mid-2000. The paper takes the perspective of behavioral additionality to evaluate to what extent the institution of technological districts has persistently altered the patterns of collaboration among actors so favoring innovative behaviors. Our aim is to present a dynamic social network analysis to identify the changes occurred in the pattern of collaborations over time by using secondary data related to the co-participation of actors in research projects undertaken by an Italian district in the period 2005-2012. In particular, at each time point, a pre-specified blockmodeling is proposed as a strategy to verify the distance between the observed data and an expected ideal core-periphery configuration.
2012
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