"This book describes the important role played by communities in innovation processes and how organizations can benefit from it. A community brings together individuals who share a common passion for a given area of knowledge and can contribute to innovation at different levels: capitalization...

Contents: Preface -- 1. Innovation and knowledge creation: challenges to the field / Harald Bathelt, Patrick Cohendet, Sebastian Henn and Laurent Simon -- Part I. innovation as a concept -- 2. A conceptual history of innovation / Benoit Godin -- 3. Concepts and models of innovation / Patrick...

We suggest a model of innovation and diffusion of a new technology in which two firms, one innovative and one non-innovative, undertake risky activities that are regulated by liability rules. One originality of this study is to consider the presence of a “double-impact” innovation, impacting...