Knowledge Networks: A Key Driver for Technological Advancement and Social Progress

Social and Technological Innovations for a Knowledge Society

Knowledge building--the creation of knowledge as a social product--is something that scientists, scholars and employees of highly innovative companies do for a living. We have demonstrated that these same activities can be integral to schooling, grades one to post graduate, and extensible to a variety of health care and workplace settings. The central purpose of CSILE (Computer Supported Intent...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT): Driver of Cultural Change and Technological Advancement

Technology has significantly changed the way humans are living. Sociocultural view of globalization posits that different cultures across the world are continuously evolving to become more integrated and homogenous. Technology Determinism Theory posits that the technology of a society determines the development of its social structure and cultural values. Drawing on sociocultural globalization ...

Social Appropriability of Scientific and Technological Knowledge

The study of social appropriability of scientific and technological knowledge is important in understanding technological innovation. Current definitions of «appropriability» –based on a notion of scientific and technological knowledge as intangible goods– focus on the capacity of an economic agent to appropriate the benefits generated in the process of application of this knowledge. Several so...

Social and institutional context of technological capabilities and knowledge creation in Iran oil industry (1979-1908)

In this essay the situation of petroleum knowledge creation and dissemination in Iran oil industry and its technological capabilities have been investigated. This configuration and trend has been studied by a documentary method and content analysis of the scientific articles that published in  a distinguished  journal of Iran oil industry  and so the related structures during  1979-1908.the res...

Are technological and social networks really different?