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An Investigation of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub Through Social Network Analysis. In The Relational Leader: Catalyzing Social Networks for Educational Change

Bastón, R., Cramer, C., Daly, A. J., Hudson, F. D., Liou, Y. H., Naum, K.,Thompson, W., Umer, L. & Uzzo, S. (2023) An Investigation of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub through Social Network Analysis. The Relational Leader, 230.


While academic networks intended to organize and purvey knowledge have explicit content and process goals, academic institutions collaborate with other institutions in a variety of ways. Research in general is a collaborative, cross-functional enterprise: open science and open data allow rapid sharing; validating and growing research, translational science and research to practice partnerships allow scientific ideas to be effectively put to practical use; and open knowledge networks, knowledge sharing and management, and convergent science allow intelligent interdisciplinary science to accelerate discovery. While all of these facets of academic collaboration help “grease the wheels” of innovation, it is understanding the challenges and opportunities that the structure of those interactions affords that lead to the kinds of learning and leadership that accelerate innovation. It is our purpose here to elucidate some of those structures through a small-scale pilot study of the evolution of an innovation network, which suggests ways that academic leadership can leverage this kind of study in order to learn to more deeply understand the effect of this evolution on building innovative partnerships within the network, and to effectively respond to how the network changes over time.



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