Networked research: European policy intervention in ICTs
Networked research: European policy intervention in ICTs
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网络研究：欧洲对信息通信技术的政策干预
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Nicholas S. Vonortas
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作者：
Stefano Breschi;Lorenzo Cassi;F. Malerba;Nicholas S. Vonortas
我们使用社会网络分析来评估支持研发(R&D)的公共计划的“行为”附加性方面。本文实证地评价了围绕欧共体第六个研究框架方案的信息社会优先项目的研发活动而建立的伙伴关系和知识网络。人们发现，这些新兴的、无规模的网络通过吸引关键的行业参与者以及通过公共支持加强整个网络的连通性，在产生、特别是在传播知识方面发挥了重要作用。公共政策一方面应努力促进更多可被描述为全球网络中心的欧洲组织的发展，另一方面应吸引更多最具活力的中小企业(SME)加入这些计划，以避免技术锁定，减轻阻力或将网络重新定向到更具生产力的研究领域。
We use social network analysis to evaluate ‘behavioural’ additionality aspects of public programmes supporting research and development (R&D). The paper appraises empirically the partnership and knowledge networks created around the R&D activities of the Information Society Priority of the Sixth Research Framework Programme of the European Community. These emergent, scale-free networks are found to play an important role in generating and, especially, in diffusing knowledge by attracting key industry actors and by strengthening overall network connectivity through public support. Public policy should try to facilitate the development of more European organisations that can be characterised as global network hubs, on the one hand, and to draw larger numbers of the most dynamic small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into these programmes, on the other, to avoid technological lock-ins and mitigate the resistance or network reorientation toward more productive research areas.