TY - JOUR
AU1 - Yaqub, Ohid
AB - Science and Public Policy 39 (2012) pp. 282–283 doi:10.1093/scipol/scs004 Advance Access published on 16 February 2012 Book Review Innovation Networks in Industries edited by Franco Malerba and Nicholas S. Vonortas Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2009 (hardback), 2011 (paperback), 272 pages, £77.00 (hardback), £25.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781847203762 (hardback), ISBN 9781848448018 (paperback) Networks are increasingly invoked by contemporary Part II draws on studies from electronics, pharmaceut- economists as a novel mode of organising human endeav- icals and nanotechnology (amongst others) to present the ours, somewhere between price markets and command main thrust of the book, namely that networks differ hierarchies, somehow able to produce coordinated coher- across sectors in their features, structure and intensity. ence. Many of their ideas come as no surprise to sociolo- The chapters explore channels of scientific and technical gists of science and innovation theorists, such as the knowledge communication, characteristics of partnerships, present editors, who have long emphasised the structures and types of corporate strategy. Tijssen’s chapter shows and processes that make lone inventors something of a that the partnership profiles of ten pharmaceutical firms cliche. It is timely then for a book to draw on multiple are strikingly similar, suggesting that cooperation patterns disciplines to 
TI - Innovation networks: More than just a metaphor?
JF - Science and Public Policy
DO - 10.1093/scipol/scs004
DA - 2012-03-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/innovation-networks-more-than-just-a-metaphor-H7TYm40gE0
SP - 282
EP - 283
VL - 39
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -