Kafouros theoretically and empirically examines the impacts of innovation and scientific knowledge on the productivity … innovation and firm productivity performance, the book also investigates a number of additional issues including the costs of R …'s productivity, and how multinationals build on external inventions, ideas and knowledge. The results confirm that not all firms can …

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 …

-- Innovation, productivity, and growth : an analysis of Irish data / James H. Love, Stephen Roper -- Innovation strategies and … -- The effects of product diversification and international diversification on SMEs' innovation / Jane Wenzhen Lu, Zhijian Wu …Introduction / Gerald I. Susman -- Exploring the reach. of innovation-related cooperation in small firms / Mark Freel …

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 …

Union. Most previous research has extensively covered barriers to entrepreneurship and innovation that exist in these …Biocad : innovation in the Russian biotechnology industry / Alexander I. Naumov, Irina A. Petrovskaya, Sheila M. Puffer …

contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit Marshall's view on the management of innovation …

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