economy and business environments, covering topics as diverse as industrial innovation, trade, FDI, productivity, value chain … of Chinese firms. Eminent global scholars provide contributions on a variety of topics, including: industrial innovation …, technological innovation and learning, the performance of Chinese international joint ventures, the global consumer, foreign direct …

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 …

, emerging economies and innovation from a variety of different perspectives. Innovation is regarded as a core driving force in …

, technology and innovation -- pt. 4. Territory, industrial development and small firms -- pt. 5. The use of game theory in …

innovation / Ian Miles -- Small and medium-sized enterprises and the consumption of traded (producer service expertise) versus … -- The nature of services / Sven Illeris -- Services and innovation : conceptual and theoretical perspectives / Jeremy …