@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0622, TITLE={The contributions of structural techniques to the analysis of innovation processes: an introduction}, AUTHOR={Didier Lebert, }, JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, VOLUME={6}, NUMBER={Issue 2}, YEAR={2021}, URL={http://openscience.fr/The-contributions-of-structural-techniques-to-the-analysis-of-innovation}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0622}, ISSN={2399-8571}, ABSTRACT={This issue of TechInn is dedicated to the tools of structural analysis applied to the economics of innovation. It includes six articles. The essential message they carry is that these tools are not only used to draw / visualize relationships between nodes in a network. They also serve as a decision-making aid for companies and public authorities in terms of innovation strategy and policy.}}