1. Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture, a matter of interaction between technology, progress and economic growth …? : an introduction -- 2. Conceptualizing innovation management and culture in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region … European integration -- 5. Schumpeter's theory of economic development revisited -- 6. Skunk works : a sign of failure, a sign …

Introduction -- The Foundations: Human Needs and Cultural Background -- Culture in Economic Thinking -- Cultural … Costs and Economic Institutions -- The Effects of Culture, Transactions and Institutions on Opportunity Entrepreneurship …

This chapter begins by noting that culture as an element in economic development in the Third World has been largely … neglected in traditional development economics, most writers either seeing culture as an obstacle to development or ignoring it … altogether. Recently a shift in thinking has occurred whereby culture is now more widely seen as being more central to the …

culture. The first part of the chapter (Sections 1–2) reviews the relationships between culture, viewed as an idiosyncratic … good, and the Marshallian theory of industrial districts. Sections 3 and 4 of the paper present a discussion of two models … of cultural districts: the industrial cultural district (mainly based on positive externalities, localized culture, and …