inside a network, or the building of an epistemic community : the Telecom Valley case study / Nathalie Lazaric and Catherine …-based society / Isabel Salavisa -- 8. Knowledge, the knowledge economy and welfare theory / Wilfred Dolfsma -- 9. Beyond the …

the concept of alliance blocks from a social network perspective, and explores the relationship between alliance block … membership and innovative performance in a changing technological environment. The book demonstrates that as an alliance network …, firms in alliance blocks are likely to apply for more patents, hold more central positions in the network, have larger …