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 …

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 …

"While much has been written about the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program from both an …

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

in areas such as strategic management, organizational and innovation studies, marketing and sales. The ideas and …

access to university knowledge to support their own innovation. Outlining and discussing the intellectual roots of research … generation to the completion of projects. This will be an essential read for academics researching innovation and the role of …. Policymakers seeking to explore how and why SMEs engage in open innovation practices will also find this an invigorating book"-- …