inter alia to management, human resources, marketing and financing. Advanced innovation capabilities related to R&D and … activity, competitive intensity and the science base all influence the nature of small-firm innovation … innovation is successful entrants -- 5. Analysis of new-firm survival -- 6. Innovation : the key to success in small and medium …

-306 -- David B. Audretsch (1995), 'New Firms', in Innovation and Industry Evolution, Chapter 3, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 39 …. Acs and Attila Varga (2002), 'Geography, Endogenous Growth, and Innovation', International Regional Science Review, 25 (1 …-65 -- Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch (1988), 'Innovation in Large and Small Firms: An Empirical Analysis', American Economic …

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 …

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 …