Value and Knowledge Networks
Today, networking capabilities and technologies are important drivers for innovation and economic development. They enable new forms of economic productivity and growth, the emergence of new business and industry sectors, and they trigger fundamental changes in existing ones. They underlie new business strategies and processes as well as new forms of two-way interaction with customers. They are key to understanding how modern society develops as a service and knowledge-based economy. Value creation is increasingly a network-based outcome of cross-enterprise collaboration.
The research programme “Value and Knowledge Networks” investigates the economic and management aspects of the networked world. It looks at how innovation and entrepreneurship is enabled and shaped by networked collaborations and ICT-enabled business networks, how innovations develop and spread in networked markets, how economic processes are characterized as an evolution of networks, how governance in a networked economy is to be shaped, and how knowledge and learning as a key asset is employed and managed in firms, alliances and communities of practice.