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Exam material The exam material consists of all the literature, slides, and the lecture content, except for the papers marked "extra". So the papers that belong to the assignments are also exam material. It's all paper-and-pencil, no laptop. The exam itself will be different for 0em15 (IS) vs 0zm05. The 0em15 course has more material, as indicated in the course schedule below. The first part of the exam will be multiple choice, about 15-20 questions. The second part will be open questions. Part of the open questions can be that you have to manually calculate some network measures (not the hugely complicated ones, of course). You have 1,5 hour for the exam which we know from experience is usually enough. Any questions? Give me (CS) an email, or ask them at my office on Friday 15 Jan.
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The Network Society (0em15, 6 ects) Innovations in networks and alliance management (0zm05, 5 ects) first semester 2009/10 Uwe Matzat, Mila Davids, Chris Snijders (coordination) In this course we consider the theory and empirics of innovation and technological change from a network perspective. In what kind of networks can innovation and technological change prosper? The course considers how networks can hamper or facilitate innovation and technological change, focusing primarily at the meso- and micro level. Innovation processes as well as knowledge and technology spillovers are driven by the interactions between actors such as producers, suppliers, customers, knowledge institutes, and are constrained by institutional arrangements and market structures. Over time, networks between these actors evolve. The shape and structure of these networks affect the ease with which innovation processes and technology spillovers occur and develop. In this sense, it is not only the characteristics of the actors themselves that drive innovation and technology spillover, but also the way in which the ties between these actors are shaped. The course covers the theories explaining the general effects of networks and applies the theories to several empirical examples, with a strong emphasis on alliance management in networks.
Literature Papers, slides and lecture notes as supplied on this page and (occasionally, although we will try to keep this to a minimum) during lectures.
Grading Assignment(s) and a written exam, weighed 50% (average of assignments) + 50% (exam). The minimum for each separate assignment and the exam must be at least a 4.0. Being there Your attendance, attention, and active participation during lectures is much appreciated, and counted on. For every guest lecture presence is mandatory (this is just common decency) and will be monitored.
Study guide The table below is updated weekly and shows you, per week, what you are supposed to do. |
DATE Lectures are on Tuesdays, hours 5 and 6, at least until October 13 ! |
TAUGHT BY | SUBJECT |
TO DO |
| September 1 | CS | Intro to the course | If you have not done so, register in Studyweb! Bookmark the site by Hanneman, and download his "Introduction to social network methods" (download the pdf version). We will not study all chapters in detail, but it provides a useful general background. Read chapters 1-3. Extra: One special case of social networks are the ones that you find online nowadays, such as MySpace or Hyves. Have a look at this easy 2 minute tutorial Extra: Lots of stuff about social networks at the International Network of Social Network Analysis, including a comprehensive overview of books on Social Network Analysis. |
| September 8 | UM | The basic network arguments |
read: Granovetter, M. S., "The Strength of Weak Ties" American Journal of Sociology 78 (6): 1360-1980 (1973). Coleman, J.S. "Social Capital in the creation of human capital" American Journal of Sociology 94: 95-120 (1988). Burt,
R. (2001) "Structural Holes versus Network closure as Social Capital,
in: Social Capital. Theory and Research, ed. by Lin, N., Cook, K. &
Burt, R.
Read these papers with in the back of your head the idea that you will have to be able to apply similar network arguments to problems of alliance management and innovation science. __ Extra (not exam relevant): "Zombies in plain English"
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| September 15 | CS | Small worlds and trust |
SMALL WORLDS Read the following papers (and understand the main message) on small world networks: * Travers and Milgram (1969) An experimental study of the small world problem. Sociometry, 32, 4:425-443. * Watts and Strogatz (1998) Collective dynamics of small-world networks. Nature, vol 393, 440-442. * Dodds, Muhamad, Watts (2003) An experimental study of search in global social networks. Science, 301, 827-828. DOI: 10.1126/science.1081058 (when you are interested, have a look at Dodds' technical supplement as well). Think about applications of small world networks to innovation and alliance networks. One such application (more complicated than you need to do actually), is a paper by Hidalgo (=extra material): Hidalgo (2007) The product space conditions the development of nations. Science 317, 482. DOI 10.1126/science.1144581
TRUST Trust: read and understand the paper by Snijders and Keren. Think about applications of trust to innovation and alliance networks. Extra: have a look at IBeatGarry.com or at Wikipedia on Small worlds. Extra: If you want to run the network simulation as in this lecture, download NetLogo (choose "Networks" in the models-library) Extra: Facebook, an American bigger brother version of Hyves, has the possibility to create a picture of your own Facebook social network (including links between your friends) through it's "Friendship wheel" application (see an example friendship wheel here). If you are a Facebook user, give it a try. [Thanks to Daan Penning de Vries for pointing this out]
Extra: the article in Wired that I showed during the lecture. Extra: the (aggregate) results from the Trust Game experiment |
| September 22 |
No Lectures (Super TU/esday)
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| September 29 | UM | From network arguments to network measurements |
Read: Hanneman (2005) "Introduction to social network methods":
Download: -an example data set: talk01.dl -the software Ucinet and try it out with the data: import the data, analyse it (structural holes, density, centrality, cliques, etc). Visualize the data set with NetDraw which is part of Ucinet. -Play around with the data! We expect you to be able to use Ucinet for the assignments. That is, you should be able to do the following with Ucinet: ...to import data _______ Extra (not mandatory): More about the collection of (ego-centered) network data via web surveys (paper). |
| October 6 | MD+CS | MD: Dynamic capabilities and circulation of knowledge + CS: handout of Assignment 1 (networks of business alliances). |
Read the papers as examples of two approaches (dynamic capabilities framework vs the historical approach) with the question in mind how the problems raised in these papers are related to network arguments. Teece, D.J. (2007) Explicating dynamic capabilities: The nature and microfoundations of (sustainable) enterprise performance. Strategic Management Journal, 28: 1319-1350. Sull, D.N. (1999) The dynamics of standing still: Firestone tire & rubber and the radial revolution. Business History Review, 73, 3: 430. ------------------- The assignment Deadline = Friday, October 23, 23:00 The data: software.dl and pharmaceutical.dl . Necessary/inspirational papers for the assignment (get them from the TU/e library):
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| October 13 | [MD] | Guest lecture (1) - van Rooij on University-Industry relations attendance is mandatory -work on assignment- |
Extra: Papers that go with this lecture
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| October 20 | Note to IS students: today the 'Governing Innovations' course will be on hours 5 and 6, in HG 6.09 | -work on assignment- | No class |
| October 27 | no lectures | ||
| November 3 | no lectures | ||
| November 10 | AUD 1, 5th hour UM+CS Note to IS students: the 'Governing Innovations course will start on hour 6 in AUD1. |
Assignment 1 feedback (CS) - handout of assigment II (UM) |
Assignment 2
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| November 17 | AUD 1 5th hour (lecture will take 60 minutes) MD |
Guest lecture (2) - Rudi Bekkers on University-Industry relations attendance is mandatory! -work on assignment- |
Read the Bekkers & Bodas paper
on the use of the various channels of knowledge transfer, and try to
think yourself which challen you would favour over another, and for
what reasons? Participants will be asked to contribute these ideas to
the discussion. Note: this paper is exam material. Bekkers' slides |
| November 24 | -work on assignment- | ||
| December 1 | NOTE: hours 7 and 8, AUD 13. Governing Innovations will be on hours 5 and 6 in AUD 1 MD |
International knowledge flows (Mandatory for IS students, optional for IE students) |
See next week |
| December 8 | MD
UM |
Knowledge networks and societal transitions (Mandatory for IS students, optional for IE students)
For IE+IS: Assignment II feedback (UM) |
Zip file with the literature and slides for Mila Davids' part (note: 11.6 mb download) |
| December 15 | no lecture | ||
| December 22 | vacation | ||
| December 29 | vacation | ||
| January 5 | no lecture | ||
| January 12 |
Open Office on Friday 15 from 13:00 - 16:00 |
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| January 19 | exam week (both IE and IS) | Exam is on January 22, 9-12 (double check on owinfo though)
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week of January 26 |
exam week (both IE and IS) |
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April 16 |
April 16
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April 16, 9-12 Re-exam (double check on owinfo though) |