Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, reform of its science and technology system has deepened. This book … clusters, the R&D activities of multinational corporations operating in China, and the prospect of commercialization of high …-tech achievements. The authors argue that since commercialization has become the ultimate objective of innovation activity, the …

Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: innovation beyond national systems fragility: institutional bricolage …. 'reassembling the social', in entrepreneurial innovation and academic entrepreneurship studies: the 'amphibious scientists …Europe needs more innovative companies that grow quickly and end up big. This book examines SME growth, innovation and …

Introduction / Gerald I. Susman -- Exploring the reach. of innovation-related cooperation in small firms / Mark Freel … -- Innovation, productivity, and growth : an analysis of Irish data / James H. Love, Stephen Roper -- Innovation strategies and … conceptual framework to describe network effectiveness / Irene J. Petrick, Carleen Maitland -- Sourcing of innovation as …

research and teaching synergies in innovation and enterprise -- 9. Action research for enterprise research. -- 10. Case … -- 12. Issues in cross-national comparisons applied to building theory on informal innovation in SMEs -- 13. Marketing …