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I have applied Social Network Analysis to the study of regional economic 
development:
SEMITIEL M. (2006) Social capital, networks and economic development. Edward 
Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA.
The above book will be available on May.

María Semitiel García
Departamnt of Applied Economics
University of Murcia (Spain)

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For those of you who don't know, Michael Porter is a faculty research
at the Harvard Business School who popularized the concept of
economic clusters, from the standpoint of competitiveness.  It has
been very influential in the economic development field for the past
decade.

Porter cites network analysis as a tool in a couple of his books, but
never appears to utilize the methodology in any structured fashion.
Many of his cluster "maps" look like sociograms, but they generally
created (a) from the subjective perspective of the economic analyst,
or (b) based upon between-industry supply-chain / input-output
linkages.  I've produced some consulting research using both.

I think there is a body of research on entrepreneurship networks,
some of which has been referenced on this listserv.  I've cited
material from "The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship" edited by Chong-moon Lee, William Miller, M. Gong
Hancock and Henry Rowen which makes reference to some SNA research,
and I think you'll find a body of work regarding social capital and
entrepreneurship / innovation (which bridges to patent citation
analysis and similar work).

Having worked in economic development for about ten years, however, I
haven't seen much structured social network analysis directly tied to
economic development theory, however.  Which might simply be a
confession of ignorance, and I'll be interested to see what citations
others can provide.


Regards
Guy


On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Don Steiny wrote:

>    I wonder if there is new work going on about how internal and  external 
> social relationships affect economic development in a  region.  This could 
> include networks of education, business  development,  financial 
> institutions, lawyers and others who  promote and support new business 
> development (and of course the new  businesses themselves).    I have been 
> looking at Porter style  cluster analysis, and it looks like they count 
> the resources and  figure out the mix, but do not get much into the 
> details of the  interaction.   I am sure there is a lot going on that is 
> has not  yet or has very recently been published.
> Don Steiny
> Department of Sociology, Stanford

Guy Hagen, President
Innovation Insight, Inc.
contact information: http://innovationinsight.com/contact.php


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