Research Article
Collaboration Networks for Innovation and Socio-economic Development: European and Latin American Perspectives on Digital Ecosystems Research, Local Readiness, Deployment Strategies and Their Policy Implications
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-14859-0_1, author={Lorena Rivera Le\^{o}n and Rodrigo Kataishi}, title={Collaboration Networks for Innovation and Socio-economic Development: European and Latin American Perspectives on Digital Ecosystems Research, Local Readiness, Deployment Strategies and Their Policy Implications}, proceedings={Digital Ecosystems. Third International Conference, OPAALS 2010, Aracuju, Sergipe, Brazil, March 22-23, 2010, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={OPAALS}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={Collaboration networks Digital Ecosystems Latin America quantitative- qualitative methodological framework ICT adoption absorption capabilities connectivity social capital sustainable socio-economic development policymaking}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-14859-0_1} }- Lorena Rivera León
Rodrigo Kataishi
Year: 2012
Collaboration Networks for Innovation and Socio-economic Development: European and Latin American Perspectives on Digital Ecosystems Research, Local Readiness, Deployment Strategies and Their Policy Implications
OPAALS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14859-0_1
Abstract
International cooperation and knowledge transfer among countries has become increasingly important in the last decades, giving opportunity to a set of multiple interaction programs particularly amongst developed and developing regions. This paper discusses the feasibility of the adoption of Digital Ecosystems (DEs) in the Latin American context, based on the experience of deployment of DEs in the European Union. Different deployment experiences in the European context revealed the need of a methodology for planning and implementing DEs that resulted in a set of tools for measuring the maturity grade of localities related to the deployment of DEs and the need of an impact index for understanding its long-term implications of the dynamics of their implementation. This paper proposes a new methodological framework that integrates concepts related to ICT adoption, connectivity and absorption capacities and recognises the strong influence of social capital over these. The paper concludes with the description of a methodological tool oriented towards the mapping, evaluation and modification of scenarios related to ICT adoption process among multiple agents.