The paper investigates the impact of clusters - aggregations of industrial, academic and institutional players in a localized network - on innovation in the life-science setting and aims to enrich the line of inquiry into cluster-based innovation by applying social network analysis (SNA) approach and methods. The cluster concept has been defined in ambiguous ways, it is rather flexible, corresponding to a large variety of spatial and organizational concrete configurations. Trying to understand which of them drives to a higher cluster’s innovative outcome is the paper general aim. The addressed research question is: What is the impact of intra-cluster and inter-cluster network characteristics on the cluster’s innovative performance in the life-science sector?

Clusters and Innovation in the Life-science Sector / Chiara, D'Alise; Giustiniano, Luca. - 33. Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, (2013), pp. - (33. Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, Hamburg, Germany, May 21-26, 2013).

Clusters and Innovation in the Life-science Sector

GIUSTINIANO, LUCA
2013

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The paper investigates the impact of clusters - aggregations of industrial, academic and institutional players in a localized network - on innovation in the life-science setting and aims to enrich the line of inquiry into cluster-based innovation by applying social network analysis (SNA) approach and methods. The cluster concept has been defined in ambiguous ways, it is rather flexible, corresponding to a large variety of spatial and organizational concrete configurations. Trying to understand which of them drives to a higher cluster’s innovative outcome is the paper general aim. The addressed research question is: What is the impact of intra-cluster and inter-cluster network characteristics on the cluster’s innovative performance in the life-science sector?
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