"This book explores the latest innovations in software-defined networking and network functions virtualization. It provides methods on how to improve understanding of the strategic role of trust at different levels of the information and knowledge society, trust at the level of the global...

The claim of a positive association between a firm’s social assets and its inno-vative capacity is a widely debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany, increasingly di-rected to cluster formation. In the light...

This study examines the relationship between social capital that arises from individual relations and individual innovativeness. Social capital is considered a multidimensional construct and individual innovativeness is measured through six different indicators of scientific production....