As science and technology policy-makers focus on understanding how industry networks evolve, this study discusses how environmental changes affect the evolution of industrial networks, especially in the flat panel display (FPD) sector. By investigating different environmental scenarios, it can...

Effective promoting national innovative capacity performance tends to be a critical policy for a country. This study examines network contagion effects on international diffusion of embodied and disembodied technology by two different social network models: cohesion models, which are based on...

An individual who has the ability to focus and learn quickly is at a distinct competitive advantage over those who do not. As difficult as it may be to accelerate an individual’s learning rate, it is even more complicated to accelerate the learning rate of a group. Knowledge management has...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a macro perspective on diffusion structure research, and to investigate the deep structure of international technology diffusion and structural differences between technology diffusion networks. This work also provides an understanding of the nature of...