Managing Networks of Creativity

Fiorenza Belussi is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics "Marco Fanno" at the Faculty of Science Policy, University of Padua, Italy. Udo Staber is Professor and Chair of Organization Studies in the Department of Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

• Part I: Organizing and Managing Creativity 1. Deconstructing Creativity: Entrepreneurs, Individual Talents, and Social Networks. F. Belussi 2. The Ecological Foundations of Creativity. U. Staber 3. The Evolving Organizational Routine. D. Breslin Part II: Business Models of Creativity 4. Knowledge Networks in Science within a Regional Innovation System. F. Belussi and D. Porcellato 5. Silicon Valley Stories. T. Weil 6. Embodied Knowledge Transfer for Innovation: Comparing Inter-Firm Labor Mobility Between Music and Manufacturing Industries. L. Frederiksen and S.R. Sedita 7. Design, Communication and Competitive Advantage in the Italian Furniture Districts. E. Di Maria 8. Culture Experiences in Favour of Creativity: A Case Study of Art Consumption. F. Gambarotto and C. Furlan 9. Public Demand for Contemporary (Visual) Art between Production and Fruition. Analytical Considerations and Empirical Evidences. A. Pellanda 10. Creative Industries in Creative Cities: Some Evidences From Italy and Spain. L. Lazzeretti 11. The Emergence of Trust-Based Knowledge Ecosystems: The Case of Illycaffè In Brazil. P. Andriani, G. Biotto and D. Ghezzi 12. Sense-Based Innovation: The New Competition on Meanings and Relations. E. Di Maria and M. Paiola 13. Contexts of Experience. B. Di Bernardo and R. Grandinetti. Part III: Networks and Clusters of Creativity 14. Human Mobility as Determinant of Price Strategy in a Fragmented Sector: The Case of the Top Quality Wine Sector. M. Visentin 15. Looking for the Missing Link between Creativity and Governance in Open Source Communities: Some Implications from GNOME and KDE Case Study. A. Ganzaroli and G. Fiscato 16. Creativity and the Community: Reflexivity and Creation in the Free/Libre/Open Source Software Community. F. Rullani 17. Are Innovation Networks Still Territorially Embedded? The Crolles 2 Alliance in Semiconductors. N. Balas and F. Palpacuer 18. Multiple Path Dependency and Creativity in Industrial Districts. F. Belussi and S. Sedita 19. Evolution of Spanish Industrial Districts: How Are They Evolving and Adapting in the Face of Globalization?J. Tomas-Miquel, X. Molina-Morales, and M. Exposito-Langa 20. Localization and Productivity: The Evolution of a Relationship for Two Units of Analysis. F. Puig and H. Marques

"This is an original book which brings together, in a distinctive evolutionary perspective, a collection of sound investigations on the complex linkages and connections underlying innovative and creative processes. The variety of industries, types of networks and localities analyzed in the book offers a rather unique ensemble of fresh evidence on contemporary processes of economic, social and institutional change." – Simona Iammarino, University of Sussex