This paper aims to investigate the impact of interpersonal networks on the innovativeness of inventors. A significant amount of literature has been devoted to the analysis of network effects in the economic and managerial sciences. The main research works in this field have emphasized the strong...

Environmental and climate change concerns have become in the last two decades very high on the competitive, political and socio-technical programs of market economies as the 2009 Copenhagen summit has shown. This context appears to be an opportunity to reconcile economic imperatives and...