, organising and coordinating R&D and innovation on a global scale. In addition to papers on the fundamental principles, trends and … concepts such as knowledge networks, open innovation and virtual innovation. It is a key reference collection for professors … technology and innovation officers keen to develop their corporate R&D more systematically …

Contents: Preface and Introduction / Mitsuru Kodama -- 1. Innovation through boundaries vision and dynamic capabilities … creation perspective / Mitsuru Kodama -- 3. Knowledge convergence and design-driven innovation through boundaries knowledge … - new knowledge from the knowledge convergence and design-driven innovation perspectives / Mitsuru Kodama and Masashi Kimura …

shaped the economics of innovation as a distinct and specialised field of investigation. Comprehensive and accessible, it … further elaborates the relationship between the economics of knowledge and the economics of innovation. The Encyclopedia … and the Arrovian economics of knowledge as indispensable ingredients to understanding innovation. The entries highlight …

Kafouros theoretically and empirically examines the impacts of innovation and scientific knowledge on the productivity … benefit from innovation, and indicate that whilst some companies can turn technological advances into a powerful competitive … weapon, innovation for others is merely a defense mechanism. To provide a clearer understanding of the relationship between …

Innovation Networks in Knowledge-based Firms explores corporate strategic management in an information and … communication technology (ICT) environment, and illustrates the significance of new business models based on 'boundary innovation … service innovation in ICT industries, such as search and advertising (Yahoo, Google), music distribution (Apple iPod) and …

development of a sufficiently strong process of innovation. Within the framework of new institutional economics, the book looks at …. Opening up a new area of research encompassing the institutional framework of the innovation process, this pathbreaking volume … will be of enormous interest to a wide-ranging audience including economists in the fields of theory, innovation research …

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The economic complexity of innovation -- pt. 3. The economic complexity of knowledge …

evolutionary economics and innovation system studies, and relate this approach to existing theories in a broad range of fields …1. Introduction / Elias G. Carayannis, Aris Kaloudis and Åge Mariussen -- 2. Technological evolution, innovation and … in the knowledge economy and society / Elias G. Carayannis -- 6. Towards a communicative theory of diverse innovation …