Social relationships channel information, influence, and access to scarce resources. As a consequence, social networks - the patterns of these relationships across the members of a community - influence who comes up with important innovations, whether and how rapidly those innovations get...

As part of the continued efforts of the Center for Innovation to develop new evaluation strategies, we developed a new framework and proposed this in an invited white paper for a major assessment called for by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. What makes this framework new is that is...

Das Papier untersucht die Genese und Institutionalisierung der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft als Organisation für die Vertragsforschung im außeruniversitären Forschungssystem der Bundesrepublik. In der Folge interorganisatorischer Domänenkonf likte wurde die Gesellschaft in der Mitte der...