ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the origins and early critical stages of development of a new technological community in a national scale (i.e. Greece) from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. It adopts a network approach and focuses on a specific family of computerised technologies, geographic information systems (GIS) (Goodchild 1992). The underlying argument is that the evolution and dynamics of the GIS community in Greece can be analysed through the adoption, implementation and diffusion processes of GIS innovations in a broad range of settings over its early critical years from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s (Assimakopoulos 1996, 1997a, 1997b, 1997c, 2000).
