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SMART SPECIALISATION STRATEGY, CASTILLA Y LEON BACKGROUND.pdf

The NRC on Human Evolution (CENIEH), linked to the Atapuerca archaeological site, and the Centre for Ultrashort Ultraintense Pulsed Lasers (CLPU) in Salamanca.


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the percentage accessing the Internet has improved in 2013 and is now above the national average for the first time.

an effort made closer in the last two years. 80.8%of total online services can be carried out completely via the Internet.

93%of companies with Internet connection interacted with the Regional Government in 2012 (which has been above the national average for the last three years).

social networks, mobility, and geolocation services; telecommuting; cloud computing, and new pay-peruse models, Open Data; new models for collaboration with other companies.

High percentage of the population that shows a lack of interest in ICT among people who do not use the Internet.

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Co-creation has been boosted as a result of the growth of social media (OECD, 2007. There is now an extensive and growing literature on the impact that internet and social media tools (such Facebook, Twitter and Instagram,

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and the empowering effect they are having in elevating the role of the consumer in the innovation process, both with firms and with each other in terms of new peer-to-peer relationships.

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significantly enhance their web facilities, and engage in e-business capabilities to help reduce their costs

In order to create national coherence and synergies between the centres, a common webpage, telephone number, user evaluation system, intranet, competencies development programme,

next-generation localisation and sensor webs. ii) Technology Transfer Offices (TTOS) A fund of EUR 30 million has been made available to improve the knowledge flow between higher education and the enterprise sector.

but instead requires a web of relationships among firms, research organisations and governments. Knowledge flows are the quintessence of an innovation system,

thereby underscoring the importance of social networks. Adragna and Lusardi (2008), on the other hand, single out gender and age as the key determinants of entrepreneurship;

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five-year IDA pilot project with 13 competitively selected community partner sites operating 14 programmes in a mix of urban and rural locations across the country.

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and social networks can contribute to connect people and good causes. In this case a web based platform has opened up the boundaries of donation mechanisms to support among others also social enterprises and socially innovative initiatives.

Box 5. 10. Social Impact Bonds (United kingdom) Social Finance was created from the Commission on Unclaimed Assets,

www. socialfinance. org. uk/downloads/SIB REPORT WEB. pdf. Box 5. 11. ammado: A global platform harnessing social media for social goods ammado is a global platform

which connects nonprofit organisations, sociallyresponsible companies and engaged individuals in a unique environment of shared interests.

and power of Web 2. 0. It was founded as a mission-based, for-profit enterprise, in Dublin in 2005 by a serial entrepreneur, Peter Conlon,

and challenges in harnessing social media for social good. After four years of building the ammado platform the site was launched in June 2008

and is currently available in 12 languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, traditional and simplified Chinese) connecting individuals from 130 countries

A global platform harnessing social media for social goods (cont. nonprofits to promote their cause (s)

The integration of company profiles, vast and various web tools and a secure donation interface called the Giving Circle make ammado a one-stop shop. ammado facilitates charitable contributions from everyone, worldwide,

A wave of response from Italians and others around the world wanting to send immediate relief was being thwarted by a series of difficulties on the IRC site,

from language (many 2nd 3rd generation Italians do not have command enough of the language to navigate an Italian-language site) to payment methods accepted (to date,

many Italian npo sites require a bank transfer or Italian credit card, limiting international donations. As a stopgap, The irish Red cross and American Red cross accepted donations through ammado and spread the word about their initiative.

In addition to online donation capabilities, ammado offers giving vouchers and interactivity with other social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Nonprofits can add the Donate Now box to their Facebook Fan Pages. The ammado donations widget is one of the platform's latest features.

and can sit on any website, blog or social network profile that can accept embeddable HTML.

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and there without navigating away from the site/blog. In 2008, Edelman Goodpurpose released a study on Mutually beneficial marketing:


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Email: R. grimm@mmu. ac. uk Innovation: The European Journal of Social science Research, 2013 Vol. 26, No. 4, 436 455, http://dx. doi. org/10.1080/13511610.2013.848163 2013 ICCR Foundation For the first time in more than a generation

One important site for social innovation is the workplace. Workplace innovation has been defined as: a social, participatory process which shapes work organization and working life, combining human, organizational and technological dimensions and resulting in a better quality of working life (Oeij, Klein Hesselink, and Dhondt 2012.

aspirations and values were locked into local social networks or milieu of innovation. However, not all networks are creative and innovative.

Social networks have also been instrumental in creating new forms of local partnerships driving positive change.

that social networks and processes themselves are important resources to anticipate change and to make societies more cohesive and resilient.

The development of the Internet and more particularly social networking sites opened up vast opportunities for user-led innovation that ranges from political activism (the Arab spring,

Numerous applications, including Mozilla, Open-office, Wikipedia, Linux (to name only a few), were developed collaboratively by Open source Community programmers and volunteers.

Therefore, the new technology co-creation community ethos of the Web 2. 0 social media dialog questions not only the developer user/producer consumer dichotomy

Data is an important resource and output of these social media innovations. Opening up government data silos to developers and communities is

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Social network Digital City Management Journal of International Technology and Information management 1 Social network Enhanced Digital City Management and Innovation Success:

A Prototype Design Bih-Ru Lea Wen-Bin Yu Prashanth Kannan University of missouri Rolla ABSTRACT Innovation is the process by

With the advance of technology, social networks that play a fundamental role as a medium for the spread of information, ideas,

This study investigates how social network theories can be used to design and manage a web-based digital city that connects entrepreneurs to influential factors of innovation (e g.,

, supply factor, demand factor, industrial support activities, business strategies and structures) and consequently enhances the innovation process.

A social network can be defined as a set of people, organizations or other social entities, connected by a set of socially meaningful relationships, such as friendship,

Social networks provide participants with opportunities of finding social support, establishing new social or business contacts (Hogg & Adamic,

With the advancements in communication technology, social networking model can be applied in developing a digital city.

Starting from the conception of building social network based web sites in 1999, the focus on this area has increased significantly.

Although both digital cities and social networks could carry out major social and economic advancements (Ishida, 2002a & 2002b),

limited research exists to apply social network concepts to design and construct a digital city to enhance innovation success. Therefore,

the objective of this study is to apply theories from social network and digital city in designing a web-based digital city as a means of connecting individuals to influential factors of innovation and,

consequently, improve probabilities of innovation success. The structure of the paper is as follows: First, a brief literature review on influential factors for innovation success, social networks and digital cities is provided followed by the research methodology.

Subsequently, a case study is used to provide insights on designing and managing a social network based digital city.

This case study presents different means and designs to strengthen an individual's social network, to connect individuals to influential factors of innovation,

and to obtain support needed during the innovation process. Finally, the implications and future research directions are presented. 2 Social network Digital City Management Journal of International Technology

and Information management LITERATURE REVIEW Influential Factors of Innovation Success Influential factors on the success of innovation include supply factors,

Social networks It is believed that innovation success is correlated positively with the opportunity to mobilize and direct resources/support to a solution from different support dimensions during the innovation process.

and direct resources is a function of the strength of his/her social network. Therefore, it is important for an individual to have a strong social network

in order to establish and maintain connectivity to resources needed for innovation success. Consequently, strengthening an individual's social network leads to higher probability for innovation success. A social network is a graph of relationships and interactions within a group of individuals (often called actors in social network literature) and plays a fundamental role

as a medium for the spread of information, ideas, and influence among its members (Churchill et al.,

Figure 4 is an illustration of relationships in a social network. In the figure, elliptical items represent individuals in a social network.

For ease of understanding, only 3 levels of relationships have been depicted in the diagram and only individual 1 (ellipse 1) at 3 B. R. Lea, W. B. Yu & P. Kannan

The social network starts at individual 1 who has a direct social relationship with individuals 2,

A social network can exist if an individual has an acquaintance that can form a social relationship

they are still part of a social network. Though there is a link, it is not strong. These types of links will be considered as end nodes

Just as individuals can link to each other through a social relationship and form a social network network groups (Garton et al.

and C are social network groups and ellipse 13 represents an individual who is not a part of any group.

and is part of this social network. Each social group has a set of individuals who have social links among them

so this scholar's membership in these two networks links the two social networks by forming a path between computer technology researchers and the scholar's friends. 4 Figure 4:

A Social network Illustration. 1 234567891011121312345 6 7 8910111213a B c Figure 5: A Social network Consisting Groups and Individuals.

The basic properties of social networks include size, density, degree, reachability (Hanneman, 2001), connectivity (Stocker, 2001),

and multiplexity (Emirbayer & Goodwin, 1994). Size of the network is indexed by counting the number of nodes in the network (Stocker 2001.

For instance, Social network Digital City Management Journal of International Technology and Information management 5 individuals who are work associates may also be linked by family ties, political affiliations,

A social network provides a venue for storytelling or showcasing projects and best practices and could be leveraged to create new knowledge resources as social networks also allow interpersonal relations to cut across boundaries (i e.,

, neighborhood, workplace, and kinship or class). With application of information and communication technology, social networks become flexible

and can be sustained over distance and are hence helpful in maintaining a community in a mobile society.

Benefits of having a strong social network include opportunities of finding social support, establishing new social

) is based a large Internet site offering a range of online services, including access to social environments, community services, municipal information,

) The construction of a digital city is built often upon social network concepts including common interests or shared goals (Akahani et al.

A conventional social network is built on people while a digital city is built on an online medium with participants consisting of human users and computer programs.

Therefore, a social network based digital city is more flexible (Ishida, 2002b), has more multidimensional means for dissemination activities (Götzl et al.,

2002), and provides more effective and efficient information integration than a traditional social network. Digital cities often apply technology to encourage public participation more effectively and efficiently than traditional forms of social network.

As a result, the network growth rate of digital cities is much higher than traditional social networks.

Without the physical boundaries, digital cities impart and enhance benefits of traditional social networks across time

and space and accelerate and globalize the networking process (Lea et al.,2006). ) Furthermore, a digital city can easily support

and maintain bigger networks more securely than conventional social networks. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLGY Successful innovation is an important factor for economic development.

Ishida, 2002a) and both digital cities and social networks could carry out major social and economic advancements (Ishida, 2002a;

However, limited research exists to address applying social network concepts to design and construct a digital city to support innovation process and, consequently,

the objective of this research is to address how social network theories can be used to design

and manage a web-based digital city that connects entrepreneurs to influential factors of innovation

This study provides sample designs that apply social network concepts to promote and structure social interactions among the users of a digital city

B. R. Lea, W. B. Yu & P. Kannan 2007 Volume 16, Number 3 The I3 is built a social network on an electronic medium to form a digital city that consists of an aggregation

and maintaining a strong social network is time consuming and effort intensive, the objectives of the I3 project are to manage the network of users

and communities to participate in social network activities (e g. exchange of information, resources, or knowledge) Enabling users to learn best practices

collecting and correlating social network data (e g. degree, density, etc.)for innovation success Providing a framework for timely communication and distribution of experiences, contextual information,

only the administrator modules that focus on the management of a social network based digital city is discussed in this study.

and. 6 Social network Digital City Management Journal of International Technology and Information management Figure 6: Entity Relationship Diagram. 7 B. R. Lea, W. B. Yu & P. Kannan 2007 Volume 16, Number 3 Figure 7:

and search capabilities that allow the administrator to retrieve specific user information for modification or deletion. 8 Social network Digital City Management Journal of International Technology and Information management Figure 8:

It is important to track social network evolution for every user at all times (Hanneman, 2001) as social interaction can form influential circles that transform innovation into a successful business plan.

a user's initial social network information is maintained by four entities including communication group, social group, influential group,

and used to monitor changes in social network parameters and network evolution of users. The information maintained by the entities is used to calculate the network's key parameters like effective size of the network, density and redundancy,

as shown in Figure 9. These social network measures are calculated dynamically and will change when new users are added to the system.

Partial User Social network information Survey Who Knows Who. 10 Social network Digital City Management Journal of International Technology and Information management Figure 10:

Therefore, having a strong social network is beneficial in finding social support, establishing new social or business contacts for collaboration (Hogg & Adamic, 2004;

) However, access to sources of resources through person-to-person social networking is laborious, time consuming, and often unfruitful and is not efficient or effective because of geographic distance, topical distance, concept communication, potential advantage recognition,

I3 provides an internal email system that allows users to inquire resource or exchange ideas.

Therefore, I3's email system is desgined to allow users to post messages on their needs

the software agent could 12 Social network Digital City Management Journal of International Technology and Information management review all resources available that match the requester's requirements and can direct the resource to the user (this process is done currently by the human administrator),

and key social network statistics, serves as a systematic mechanism to record and evaluate social network performance and knowledge,

and provides leverage to the administrator in making important managerial decisions. Six types of reports in I3 are provided to track resource usage in the system.

and total resource requests by region. 14 Social network Digital City Management Journal of International Technology and Information management Figure 15:

Case Manager Profile. 16 Social network Digital City Management Journal of International Technology and Information management (A as a User (user 1020 in this example)( b) As a System Administrator

SUMMARY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS Social networks and digital cities go hand in hand and can positively improve the probability of innovation success. This study documents design

and initial deployment of a digital city project‘Innovation Information Infrastructure (I3)' based on social network concepts to enhance success of innovation through promoting

and collaboration among large groups of participants over computer networks and to encourage the participation of the key players of the digital city to improve cooperation

and collaboration in digital cities and provides an internal email system and resource management that allows interactions among users

or indirect connectedness to improve his or her social network. Table 5. 1 summarizes the key functionalities implemented in I3 and its effect in advancing Social networking and innovation.

Although major functions needed to establish and maintain one's social network are in place, several essential functions are yet to be developed to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed social network based digital city prototype.

Personalization and intelligent interaction between digital cities and their users based on user 18 Social network Digital City Management Journal of International Technology and Information management profiles are still challenges.

Forums, chat rooms, and other discussion places need to be developed to provide better participation and collaboration for users.

Business and transaction services are yet to be provided. Also as part of future enhancements, software agents can be developed

and used to survey the threads of messages (in I3's email system) periodically to help the administrator in understanding the requirements of the users in the system

In the entirety, I3 has been successful in implementing social networks but analyzing the data and building a knowledge base would help build a stronger digital community.

Email System Helps make successful business innovations as successful innovations in business are possible by mobilizing

Reporting Collect user perspectives on different issues of Social network ing and forming influential circles through social interaction Questionnaire/Survey,

and can help identify important nodes in the network Social network Analysis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This project is funded by National Science Foundation Award#0332378, Partnerships for Innovation Program, Dr. John hurt Program Director

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Lawrence Erlbaum, 179 205.22 About the Authors Journal of International Technology and Information management i About the Authors Volume 16, Number 3, 2007 Social network Enhanced Digital City Management

Prashanth Kannan conducted research in the area of Social networking/Digital Cities and business innovations and received his MS degree in Computer sciences from University of missouri at Rolla.

An Examination of Internet Effectiveness for Non-work Activities Pruthikrai Mahatanankoon is an Assistant professor of Information systems at the School of Information technology at Illinois State university.

His current research interests focus upon Internet behaviors in the workplace, mobile commerce, and management of IT professionals.

and Web Usage. He has published papers in journals such as Communications of the ACM and Human Systems Management.


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