Resumen de Legami forti e deboli nella costruzione sociale delle invenzioni

Franco Ramella, Carlo Trigilia

• The generative mechanisms of innovation have rarely been studied, especially in Economic sociology. The article addresses this issue relying on extensive research carried out on Italian inventors. The aim is to outline their profile and activities, conceiving their inventions as the outcome of a process of social construction. The research is based on a multidimensional approach that brings together the individual, the relational and the contextual dimensions that structure the inventive process