Innovation Systems, Networks and Social Capital. the Different Roles of Weak and Strong Ties in Innovation Processes

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, University of London, course: Innovation Systems, Networks and Social Capital, language: English, abstract: Innovation processes often mainly consist of the creation of genuine new knowledge or the recombination of existing knowledge in a new context. These processes are managed by people, who are also the carrier and translator of knowledge. As knowledge creation is only partially...