Contents

pp v-viii

List of contributors

pp ix-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xii

1 - Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Information, collaboration, innovation: the creative power of networks

pp 13-14

2 - Dissemination of health information within social networks

pp 15-46

3 - Scientific teams and networks change the face of knowledge creation

pp 47-59

4 - Structural folds: the innovative potential of overlapping groups

pp 60-79

5 - Team formation and performance on nanoHub: a network selection challenge in scientific communities

pp 80-100

Part II - Influence, capture, corruption: networks perspectives on policy institutions

pp 101-102

6 - Modes of coordination of collective action: what actors in policy-making?

pp 103-123

7 - Why skewed distributions of pay for executives is the cause of much grief: puzzles and few answers (so far)

pp 124-142

8 - Networks of institutional capture: a case of business in the State apparatus

pp 143-155

9 - The social and institutional structure of corruption: some typical network configurations of corruption transactions in Hungary

pp 156-176

Part III - Crisis, extinction, world system change: network dynamics on a large scale

pp 177-178

10 - How creative elements help the recovery of networks after crisis: lessons from biology

pp 179-188

11 - Networks and globalization policies

pp 189-219

12 - Network science in ecology: the structure of ecological communities and the biodiversity question

pp 220-236

13 - Supply security in the European natural gas pipeline network

pp 237-264

14 - Conclusions and outlook

pp 265-268

References

pp 269-293

Index

pp 294-299