Spatial and Social Networks in Organizational Innovation

对推动创新的因素的研究往往只关注社会因素或空间因素，而不是两者兼而有之。这是一项跨学科研究，考察了一系列高度创新组织中空间布局、社会网络和创新之间的联系。这些结果对于那些为寻求创新的组织设计空间的人以及那些管理空间的人来说应该是有价值的。研究团队包括建筑学、组织科学和社会学方面的专家。作为一个组织中循环、共存、共同意识和相遇模式的建筑空间结构，这些相互关系成为社会网络发展的基础，特别是那些对创新过程至关重要的网络。这项研究将包括对空间的深入分析，包括其几何和拓扑性质。它还将审查用户对空间环境质量的看法，因为它们与创新有关。它还将采用与社会网络分析相关的理论和方法来检查关键社会联系的形成和维护。这项研究将包括开发和测试用于描述与社会现象有关的空间变量的新指标。这些对其他想要探索人、空间和表演之间的联系的研究人员来说是有价值的。

Research on what enables innovation tends to focus on either social factors or spatial ones, but not both. This is an interdisciplinary study examining links among spatial layout, social networks, and innovation in a set of highly innovative organizations. The results should have value for those who design spaces for organizations that seek to be innovative as well as for those who manage them. The research team includes experts in architecture, organization sciences, and sociology. As built space structures patterns of circulation, co-presence, co-awareness and encounter in an organization, these interrelationships become fundamental to the development of social networks, especially those networks critical to the innovation process. This study will include an in-depth analysis of space, including its geometric and topological qualities. It will also examine user perceptions of the environmental qualities of space as they relate to innovation. It will also employ theories and methods related to social network analysis to examine the formation and maintenance of crucial social links. The study will include development and testing of new metrics for describing spatial variables pertinent to social phenomena. These will be valuable for other researchers who would like to explore questions related to links among people, spaces, and performance.