Innovation in socio-cultural context / / edited by Frane Adam and Hans Westlund

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/3
• Soggetto topico: Technological innovations - Economic aspects; Technological innovations - Social aspects; Diffusion of innovations - Economic aspects; Diffusion of innovations - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: AdamFrane WestlundHans
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. The cultural and cognitive framework of innovation -- pt. II. Innovation and social capital : a reconsideration of conceptual and methodological dilemmas -- pt. III. Case studies.
• Sommario/riassunto: Innovation - the process of obtaining, understanding, applying, transforming, managing and transferring knowledge - is a result of human collaboration, but it has become an increasingly complex process, with a growing number of interacting parties involved. Lack of innovation is not necessarily caused by lack of technology or lack of will to innovate, but often by social and cultural forces that jeopardize the cognitive processes and prevent potential innovation. This book focuses on the rule of social capital in the process of innovation: the social networks and the norms; values and attit
• Titolo autorizzato: Innovation in socio-cultural context
• ISBN: 1-283-94218-6; 0-203-08554-X; 1-136-19891-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462789903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Advances in Sociology