On the basis of beliefs on open innovation, online social networks and Web 2.0, we propose a new type of approach based on people-to-people interaction to support national innovation activities. With the aim of generating new ideas, our National Open Innovation System (NOIS) combines two rival innovation sources: (1) technology and social foresight research, and (2) customer needs and experienc...

We present results of an eight-week case study of the cameraphone use of one extended family. Our goal was to understand not only how they used these technologies as part of existing socialand workrelated communication and photographic practices but also to understand what influences how people use or do not use their cameraphone and multimedia messaging technologies. Drawing from the new media...

Public response to risk is socially shaped in a way that often severely overor under-estimates expert risk assessments. One of the main theoretical tools to examine public risk responses of this kind is the social amplification of risk framework. An important finding is that social amplification is strongly influenced by the conduct of those managing a risk. This study models social risk amplif...

This bachelor thesis describes the product development of Cluster 2.0, a website developed to test a new theory regarding innovation. Cluster 2.0 combines the gathering of information about stakeholders in the satellite navigation industry, with a social network. The different stages of the development process will be explored, and most importantly the theory and background information that led...

On the basis of beliefs on open innovation, online social networks and Web 2.0, we propose a new type of approach based on people-to-people interaction to support national innovation activities. With the aim of generating new ideas, our National Open Innovation System (NOIS) combines two rival innovation sources: (1) technology and social foresight research, and (2) customer needs and experienc...

Communities of place feature prominently in new urbanism movements and in master-planned inner-city developments that result from urban renewal. This paper’s point of departure is the stark contrast between the widespread use of mobile and ubiquitous media and communications technology by urban dwellers on the one hand and endemic forms of urban alienation and the disappearance or non-existence...

A field study of top management teams and knowledge workers from 72 technology firms demonstrated that the rate of new product and service introduction was a function of organization members’ ability to combine and exchange knowledge. We tested the following as bases of that ability: the existing knowledge of employees (their education levels and functional heterogeneity), knowledge from member...

Involving suppliers in NPD is becoming more important to firms in order to incorporate the latest technology into their products. In such relationships the buying firm is often more powerful than the supplier. However, this paper involves some suppliers that are equally powerful as the buying firm. To study these relationships we apply agency theory on the NPD projects where the buying firm is ...

1 School of Sociology and the Applied Network Research Laboratory, National Research University­Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation {blind,gnmkrtchyan}@hse.ru 2 Department of Sociology and Criminology, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, United State [email protected] Abstract. Despite widespread scholarly attention on social movement media coverage, the full ran...