INDUSTRY STUDIES ASSOCATION WORKING PAPER SERIES Social Capital and the Creation of Knowledge By Claudia N. Gonzalez-Brambila Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Mexico City, D.F., 01000, Mexico cgonzalez@itam.mx and Francisco M. Veloso International Motor Vehicle Program Cambridge, MA 02139 and Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 fveloso@cmu.edu and David Krackhardt Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 krack@andrew.cmu.edu 2008 Industry Studies Association Working Papers WP-2008-18 http://isapapers.pitt.edu/