via websites and online social networks rather than by simply talking â€oeat†customers through traditional media
Use social neworks (Facebook, Twitter, †¢Linkedin etc. selectively and carefully to promote product-related environmental
messages Develop press relationships with environ-†¢mental media and websites and communi -cate good new
¢blog. seedrs. com Funding Circle articles†¢www. fundingcircle. com/about-us/in-the-news Get your eco-innovation idea off the ground:
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Although social network 3 The term †active internet users†refers to individuals who use the internet every day or every other day (Unimccann
) Microblogging is the use of social network services specifically created for the sharing of brief entries and
content, such as Jaiku or Twitter 18 services are perceived as global platforms, 84.2%of Facebook relationships and a large percentage of
Twitter relationships were found to be clustered along country lines (Gonzalez et al. 2011; Kulshrestha et al.,
, 2012; Ugander et al. 2011), as illustrated in Figure E. 1. 3. Consequently, the future may be potentially
Intranational Twitter followers outweigh their countries†share of the overall global Twitter population Source: Kulshresta et al.
2011 19 20 Chapter 3. Progress in technology will require society to reflect on values and ethics
online social networks have been found to be an effective influencing tool for political participation in some cases,
social network services may be a tool for the empowerment of minorities. However, minorities and young people †whose participation indicates that these services have a prodemocratic effect †are usually
agency in the new networked public sphere,"London School of economics blogs, 2012. As of 08/03/2013:
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The role of social networks in online shopping information passing, price of trust, and consumer choice.
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social networks and effectiveness in building new ties (Mosey & Wright 2007. Firms that interact with a greater variety of actors and across diverse institutional environments, are more likely to
and social networks among private firms and university researchers that are viewed as a central component of third generation innovation models
the social networks between firms and universities. The objective of this third recommendation would be the creation of a †virtual technology park†for some of the innovative firms dispersed throughout the
4. Social network in Organizational Contexts 32 5. Entrepreneurial Orientation 35 6. Innovativeness 39 VIII CHAPTER III
Table 5. Social network in CE: key reasons 34 Table 6. Entrepreneurial Orientation †what we need to know to
9 Social network Theory 9 Resource-based view 9 Absorptive capability and Learning Theory Research design 9 Quantitative study
4. Social network in Organizational Contexts Approximately 30 years ago, an important new area of research within the
The starting point of the study of social networks was drawn on a broader revitalization of the field of economic sociology (Hoang and
The entrepreneur is embedded in a social network that plays a critical role in the entrepreneurial process (Aldrich and Zimmer, 1986.
social networks as a set of actors (individuals or organizations) and a set of linkages between them.
Social network research in organizational contexts highlights topics such as social capital, embeddedness, organizational networks, board interlocks, joint ventures and
people in organizations in terms of their embeddedness in social networks. Table 5 shows ten key reasons (arranged chronologically) why it is important to consider the
social network from the corporate entrepreneurship perspective Table 5. Social network in CE: key reasons Main idea Study
1 â€oethe presence of colleagues/partners in the entrepreneurs†personal networks is strongly related to all performance
7 â€oea focus on the social networks of organization leaders is likely to enhance our understanding of organizational
that the entrepreneur is embedded in a social network that plays an important role in the entrepreneurial process.
) Social networks can be defined as a set of actors (individuals or organizations) and a set of linkages
Members of social networks can directly influence the propensity to assume greater or lesser risk activities
entrepreneur†s contact frequency with members of his/her families or social networks into a firm†s entrepreneurial behavior.
Birley (1985) found that social networks provide the main sources of help in assembling the resources needed;
social network approach, as well as entrepreneurial spirit in companies†environments can be valuable to society as a whole because they represent more than just
EO, social networks and innovativeness on its performance. Furthermore, in the present dissertation we have focused on EO as one important dimension of RBV and its impact
For public policy-makers, our findings indicate that the social network approach, as well as entrepreneurial spirit in SMES, can be valuable to society as a whole because
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The cluster originated from a tight social network among biotechnology firms, venture capital and research institutions. Now, the direct links between DBFS are building the main network
Next to the social network effect, also the heterogeneity of individuals and organisation regarding knowledge, skills and experiences contributed to the succes of the
Strong social networks of university graduates and ex-employees of large companies that start their own company
of the Quebec Photonics Network sees the relatively dense social network of Quã bec City confined to a relatively small area as a reason why collaboration might be easier.
including blogs and internet-based communities 38. A typical example of using social resources to innovate is the popular phenomenon of open source software 71
online social networks and other collaborative communities for knowledge exploration 36,94. Moreover, little work has been done on downstream networks exploiting existing knowledge 91
Online social networks: Enlarging the knowledge exploration landscape The OI model stresses the importance of using a broad range of sources for innovation and commercialisation activities by
Online social networks are used frequently by ï rms as one of these channels but NSI scholars have not heeded
An illustrative case of online social networks is the trend towards open source software 71. An oft-given example is the Linux
Online social networks may solve problems for current business development or pool ideas 97 for future business development.
organisations are linked up in online social networks. Individuals are assigned carefully to certain communities, for example, those serving a given sector.
95 R. Cachia, R. Compaã Ã, O. Da Costa, Grasping the potential of online social networks for foresight, Technol.
Online social networks: Enlarging the knowledge exploration landscape 3. 14. Knowledge exploitation networks: Focus on commercialisation 4. Conclusions
services †such as 100flowers selling via Facebook 3. Inventing wholly new types of business models †from virtual
It†s easy to pick Facebook as a truly digital business. But there are companies of all sizes that are embracing digital,
services activities with companies such as Facebook, IBM, Dell, Google, HP, Cook and others 3 In-House Call centres
These range from social networks for those living with chronic health conditions, to online platforms for citizen participation in policymaking, to using
the web†s incredible growth, the use of platforms like Facebook to serve social good has
as social networking sites like Facebook and sites that require large user-bases like Wikipedia or Airbnb,
-etary social networks, big data providers implementations of the Internet of things is convenient for users but also â€oelocks us
market, Facebook dominating the social networking and identity ecosystem, while Apple, Amazon and Microsoft control the
Facebook has enabled the building of thousands of apps and helped people to connect and organise
Free Content Blogs Social networks E-democracy PEOPLE SOCIETY COLLABORATION DISTRIBUTED BIG BROTHER Commercial services Entertainment (eg.
IPTV DRM-heavy apolitical INDIVIDUALISM BUSINESS COMPETITION CENTRALLY CONTROLLED Open and distributed digital ecosystems to foster grassroots social innovation
Goteo is a social network for crowdfunding and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructure, micro tasks and other resources) for encouraging the independent development of
D-CENT is developing a decentralised social networking platform for large-scale collaboration and decision-making and is piloting open source solutions across Europe engaging new political partices, citizen
Other projects are exploring the potential of federated social network -ing, such as D-CENT and Diaspora,
For instance distributed social networking projects such as Diaspora, Status. net or easy-to-run servers like arkos â€
social networks, p2p infrastructures OPEN NETWORKS 40 Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe and experiment with services and protocols.
today use blogs, wikis, social networks and hundreds of other collaborative platforms to manage their daily lives,
part of a larger social network and have mapped this network in a way that has not been possible before
Social networks are defined formally as set of nodes (or network members) that are tied by one or more types of rela
the case of the DSI social network col -lected in this study, the nodes in a graph
social networks. However, it is a large sample and thus worth exploring in de -tail. The graph of the networks is given
Social networks Diaspora Crowdsourcing Social web entrepreneurs Startup Europe Smart Cities Internet of things Innovation and innovation policy are not
Social networks Diaspora Crowdsourcing Social web entrepreneurs Startup Europe Smart Cities Internet of things Bottom up and grassroots approaches
-ture of social networks with a methodo -logical approach of foresights to engage stakeholders in the poliy making process
most social networks, Futurium participa -tory tools offer several features to sup -port collective foresight, such as scenario
social network Distributes and federated social networks based on open source code and open standards to promote open democracy
decentralised social networking public identity management and encrypted email service The Internet ecosystem today is highly centralised The current
and management systems, distributed secure Clouds, distributed search, and federated social networking It can also include the development of open source mobile phone alternatives such as Fairphone69 on top of which a whole
This should include the use of social networking platforms, independent media and other news applications. For instance, the elaboration of a newsletter or creating a DSI
strategy blog would be a helpful instrument to spread the message from the European Commission and to provide updated information about policy deployment
Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and EBAY 4 Sestini, Fabrizio.``Collective awareness platforms: Engines for sustainability and ethicsâ€.
Social network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press D. Watts and S. Strogatz (1998
/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/01/22 /brazil-let-its-citizens-make-decisions -97growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe
http://www. robotshop. com/blog /en/dfrobotshop-rover-or-arduino-on -tracks-3708 Accessed 29th january 2015
http://do. minik. us/blog/oecd bli Accessed 29th january 2015 Page 85 online http://caps2020. eu Available
http://www. facebook. com/innovation. union http://twitter. com/innovationunion 1. Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing
 F ot ol ia c om Research and Innovation Draw and play keeps Parkinson†s at bay
http://www. facebook. com/innovation. union http://twitter. com/innovationunion 2. Food security, Sustainable Agriculture, Marine
Maritime and Inland Water Research, and the Bioeconomy  F ot ol ia c om
http://www. facebook. com/innovation. union http://twitter. com/innovationunion 3. Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy
 F ot ol ia c om 3 The Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) was created in 2007 to establish an energy technology policy for Europe.
http://www. facebook. com/innovation. union http://twitter. com/innovationunion 4. Smart, Green and Integrated Transport
 F ot ol ia c om Research and Innovation Vehicles without a driver in urban transport
http://www. facebook. com/innovation. union http://twitter. com/innovationunion Helping industry use water sustainably
With climate change and a growing population, the world faces intense pressure on its most precious
http://www. facebook. com/innovation. union http://twitter. com/innovationunion Research and Innovation Towards a socio-ecological transition
What kind of growth path should Europe opt for in the face of the financial crisis and the big challenges ahead
http://www. facebook. com/innovation. union http://twitter. com/innovationunion About EU-funded research into cyber security
and online privacy The digital and online economy are central to the EU€ s economic
web site and blog about enterprise and development. As a principal analyst of household survey data and co-author for The next 4 Billion
-parate segments of the social network that are otherwise unconnected†(Elfring and Hulsink 2003: 411 On the other hand, strong ties tend to bind individuals with similar or complementary
social networks) that †offer particular (â€) advantages for firms engaged in innovation and knowledge creation. †These kind of open networks are very contrary to the earlier
and maintaining social networks have a long tradition in the region (Stoerring and Christensen 2004. Moreover, a widespread awareness of the importance of further
Social networks, Resources and Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship and Innovation 103-109 Johannisson, B.,M. Ramirez-Pasillas and G. Karlsson (2002:
"Web 2. 0"and social networking are discussed widely in terms of their business E-business in the transport & logistics industry
and social networking) to pilot a range of citizen -centred services (e g. searchable inventories on national migration policies and related
interactions such as social networks and forums, individuals are leaving a lifelong trail of personal data The number of transactions performed electronically is rising fast.
https://www. facebook. com/?/ref=tn tnmn#!/#/Digitalagenda @Digitalagendaeu @Neeliekroeseu Europe 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
https://www. facebook. com/?/ref=tn tnmn#!/#/ehealthinfso http://www. ehgi. eu http://blogs. ec. europa. eu/neelie-kroes/innovating-healthcare
/@EU EHEALTH @EU EHEALTHWEEK 50 Public services https://ec. europa. eu/digital-agenda/en/digital-life/government https://www. facebook. com/?
/ref=tn tnmn#!/#/pages/EGOV-Infso/138369062922852 @EU-egov Digital Social Platforms https://ec. europa. eu/digital-agenda/node/1106
new travel demand due to successful social networking E-working (at home or tele-center) Reduces travel needs for individuals concerned
social networks such as Facebook let users restrict or grant access to other users or groups on their data (e g.,
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Online Social networks. 2007) 43†48 30. Giuri, L.,Iglio, P.:
databases and multimedia products in your own documents, presentations, blogs, websites and teaching materials, provided that suitable acknowledgment of OECD as source and copyright owner is given.
also used IT-tools such as Linkedin (www. linkedin com) and Projectplace (www. projectplace. com) in
Linkedin) in order to extend meeting formats and facilitate communication and networking beyond physical meetings Some of the more important conclusions and
task forces and facilitate social networks etc Without this â€oechampion†organisation, any effort will not be sustainable 4 Summary of the findings from IPF
discussions, like Linkedin group Innovation Policy Forum •Work with capacity building in less developed
firms and other actors is replaced by the current social network theory of innovation, where knowledge plays a crucial role in fostering innovationâ€
Thus, the social entrepreneur sets out to tame social networks of influence. In this respect, what is extremely important for us is not so much the particular type of strategy
Social networks and innovation (handicraft industry in bantul, yogyakarta. Munich: MPRA, 28032 Brata, A..2009. Innovation and social capital in the small-medium entreprises:
mushrooming social networking websites C H A p T E R 8 Conclusions and the way forward
from the success of portable navigation systems and Web 2. 0 social networks •enhanced geo-localisation and guidance, also able to function in indoor/underground areas
companies such as Google and Facebook. 125 Higher taxes on ICT-producing companies may raise the price of ICT goods and services for everyone else.
Greg Sterling, â€oefrance Wants To Tax Facebook, Google †Personal data Collection, ††Marketing Land
January 21, 2013, http://marketingland. com/france-wants-to-tax-facebook-google-personal data -collection-31196; Jacob Albert, â€oefrance Wants to Tax Data mining,
Part 1, †Innovation Files (blog), June 22, 2012 http://www. innovationfiles. org/in-praise-of-big-business-part-1
Mark Scott, â€oeuber Faces Rebukes in Europe, †Bits (blog) New york times, accessed April 18, 2014 http://bits. blogs. nytimes. com/2014/04/17/uber-faces-rebukes-in-europe
/191. â€oepillar I: Digital Single Market †Digital Agenda for Europe, †Enterprise and Industry, European
MAIL@ITIF. ORG, ONLINE AT WWW. ITIF. ORG, JOIN ITIF ON LINKEDIN OR FOLLOW ITIF ON
TWITTER@ITIFDC AND ON FACEBOOK. COM/INNOVATIONPOLICY EU and U s. Productivity Trends Why Europe Needs to Accelerate Productivity Growth
ONLINE AT WWW. ITIF. ORG, JOIN ITIF ON LINKEDIN OR FOLLOW ITIF ON TWITTER@ITIFDC AND ON FACEBOOK. COM/INNOVATIONPOLICY
E-HEALTH flexible systems to be implemented in a relatively short time, with a focus on training and on integrating systems into the realities of the
http://blogs. telekom com/2012/08/16/telekom-bringt-wettbewerb-in-monopolstrukturen/./â€oeauch auf diesem Markt sind die Kabelnetzbetreiber
blogs and wikis; promotional literature; video clips; and slideshow presentations In parallel, a number of consultation rounds with key educational stakeholders (policy-and decision
Future of Learning Linkedin Group; 11 the etwinning Creative Classrooms Group; 12 the 10 http://groups. etwinning. net/web/creative-classroom/welcome
dissemination channels such as Linkedin, SCALE CCR webpage and etwinning Creative Classrooms Group. No reminders were sent,
11 http://www. linkedin. com/groups/Future-Learning-2266966/about 12 http://openeducationeuropa. eu/en/blogs/join-jrc-ipts-line-consultation-policy-recommendations
-mainstreaming-ict-enabled-innovation-le 13 http://www. eucis-lll. eu/news/public-consultations/ipts-online-consultation-up-scaling-creative-classrooms
-led research, control groups, experimental research, longitudinal studies, social networks analysis learning analytics, big data research, etc.
control groups, experimental research, longitudinal studies, social networks analysis learning analytics, big data research, etc. to the study of complex'ecosystems'of ICT-ELI
control groups, experimental research, longitudinal studies, social networks analysis learning analytics, big data research, etc. to the study of complex'ecosystems'of
longitudinal studies, social networks analysis learning analytics, big data research, etc. to the study of complex'ecosystems'of ICT
1. 17 Growth in Facebook monthly active users, 2004-2013 (millions of users...17 1. 18 Wikipedia articles †total and English language, 2003-2013 (thousands of articles...
5. 2 How Twitter helps understand key post-2015 development concerns...179 5. 3 How mobile operators currently use data to track service uptake, business performance and
2004, Facebook has grown to comprise 1. 3 billion active users by end 2013, a growth of 22 per cent
Wikipedia and Linkedin as well as various news and online e-market sites at the national level
Growth in Facebook monthly active users, 2004-2013 (millions of users Source: Partnership (2014), based on http://www. theguardian. com/news
/datablog/2014/feb/04/Facebook-in-numbers-statistics, accessed 6 March 2014. Data sourced from Facebook
0 500 1'000 1'500 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
mostly related to social networks (e g. Facebook followed by multimedia content sharing websites (e g. Youtube) and blogs (e g.
Twitter In the developing world, data on ICTS in enterprises are scarce and only collected by few
countries. The proportion of businesses with Internet access varies between 48 per cent in Azerbaijan and 97 per cent in Lebanon. 19 Of
17 http://www. statisticbrain. com/twitter-statistics /18 Eurostat news release of 16 december 2013 and
providers such as Google, Twitter, Facebook Whatsapp, Netflix, Amazon and many others captures a wide array of behavioural data
•Blogs and posts and other authored and unauthored online content and social media activities •Audio/images/videos
providers such as Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. Big data from the ICT services industry are already helping to produce large-scale
action, has been mining Twitter data from Indonesia (where Twitter usage is high) 9 to understand food price crises.
Global Pulse was able to identify a consistent pattern among specific food-related tweets and the daily food
analytics on the Twitter data to forecast the consumer price index several weeks in advance Byrne, 2013. As discussions on the post-2015
Pulse is also using Twitter data to understand and compare the relevance of different development topics among countries (Box 5. 2
How Twitter helps understand key post-2015 development concerns As the process of formulating the post-2015 development
to see the number of tweets generated by its Twitter users in regard to the highlighted topic,
Using Twitter to visualize trends in global development topics In fact, the ICT sector is itself using the Internet
of Facebook users, for example, revealed that while in many ways Facebook users have real-life behaviour and characteristics
in many ways the social network fails as a representation of society. On the one hand for example, the American Facebook user†s
relationship status of â€oemarried†on Facebook is very similar to real life (census) data on the average age when American people get
married. On the other hand, however, the average American Facebook user is much younger than the average citizen. 12 This is just
one example, but it highlights the need to take account of particular characteristics and the
limitations of producing representative results when extracting information from online users†behaviour Given the popularity of mobile-cellular
customers†mobility patterns, social networks and consumption preferences. Collectively, these digital breadcrumbs enable operators to profile
Furthermore, social network insights can be used by an operator to market its services to the off-network contacts that are connected
-phone data, geolocated Twitter messages and the census †showed very similar results, and although the representativeness of the Twitter
geolocated data was lower than the (real-time mobile-phone and census data, the degrees of consistency between the population density
analysis with a study of users†social networks with two users being considered as connected if they communicated with each other at least
popular online services, such as Facebook Google or other, local (financial, social etc services to provide additional insights.
Internet companies such as Google or Facebook By linking data collected from different sources and combining subscription data and usage
event and social network data. In both the Orange and Telecom italia cases, researchers had to go through an approval process in order to
Facebook â€oelikes†could accurately predict a range of behavioural attributes such as, inter alia, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political
subsequent social network analysis could contain errors (overstating or understating tie strength for example. While it may not be possible to
Twitter, Facebook or Google. For example ITU estimates suggest that 40 per cent of the world†s population uses the Internet.
understand variations in mobility, social networks and consumption among men and women and between different socioeconomic groups
and producers of big data (Google, Facebook etc.)) †have an important role globally. More work is needed to understand fully the potential
/9 According to Peerreach. com, 20 per cent of Indonesia†s online population uses Twitter, the second highest ratio in the world
See http://www. ibtimes. com/twitter-usage-statistics-which-country-has-most-active-twitter-population-1474852
12 See http://blog. stephenwolfram. com/2013/04/data science-of-the-facebook-world /13 Mobile phone records have been used to infer locations of economic activity within,
Byrne, C. 2013), How The UN€ s New Data Lab in Indonesia Uses Twitter to Preempt Disaster, Fast Company.
http://www. fastcolabs. com/3007178/open-company/how-uns-new-data-lab-indonesia-uses-twitter
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