The Emergence of Digital Innovation Actors in a Triple-Embedded Network Structure

Digital technology has radically changed the nature of innovation by giving rise to a highly fluid innovation process, more distributed agency and profoundly heterogeneous knowledge. Considering the distinct nature of digital innovation, relying on Actor Network Theory and building on the notion of innovation as being doubly embedded in a knowledge network and a social network, we argue that it is important to add a third type of network - the...