A Theory of Knowledge Growth: Network Analysis of US Patents, 1975-1999 (AUP Dissertation Series) - Softcover

Carnabuci, Gianluca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9056294032 ISBN 13: 9789056294038

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Why do certain domains of human knowledge advance faster than others? This thesis sets out to answer this question by elaborating upon the notion that new ideas spring from hybridizations of existing ideas. Over time, such hybridizations form a path-dependent network structure of interconnected and interconnecting knowledge domains. This thesis develops a network-analytic approach to model this structure and to investigate its effects. Based on all technological knowledge patented in the United States between 1975 and 1999, this thesis demonstrates that the network position a knowledge domain is embedded in at a given point in time affects its subsequent growth prospects in important and predictable ways.

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Gianluca Carnabuci (1973) attained an M.A. in Political Science at the University of Genoa, Italy, a post-graduate diploma in Decision Theory and Institutions at LIUC University, Italy, and with this dissertation a PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Currently, he is assistant professor at Bocconi University, Italy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9056294032
• ISBN 13: 9789056294038
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 158