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Introduction -- Communities As The Social Locus Of Knowledge-intensive Technological Practice -- Collaboration Networks As The Social Locus Of Knowledge-intensive Technological Innovation -- Ptolemaic Views Of Personal Networks In Cross-national Innovation -- An Astronomer's View Of The Origins Of A National Gis Community -- A Regional Semiconductor Community And Academic Entrepreneurship In Silicon Valley -- Technological Communities And Networks: New Frontiers For Knowledge Intensive Innovation. Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [205]-218) And Indexes.