Industrial innovation is essential for national and corporate competitiveness. Understanding the nature, determinants … and consequences of innovation is a key task of managers, public policymakers and all students of industry and business …pt. 1. The nature, sources and outcomes of industrial innovation -- pt. 2. Sectoral and industrial studies of …

Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some … countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries …

"Through careful investigation into the role of eco-innovation as a catalysing factor in the societal transition … towards sustainability, this Handbook proposes more appropriate measures of innovation as a driver of change. It examines … innovation from various perspectives, including labour, trade, the circular economy and energy, to illustrate a more …

multinationals in this sector, interacts with the process of innovation in services. The book challenges the theoretical traditions … that have developed around the analysis of service innovation and internationalization, and argues for a new research …pt. I. Innovation and internationalization of services : conceptual issues -- pt. II. Technology and trade and foreign …

globalization : concentration vs. dispersion / Masatsugu Tsuji -- Iron town cluster : Yawata, its glory, decline and rebirth … comparative advantages, persistence and change in overall specialization / Luca De Benedictis -- Globalization, industrial …

-- pt. III. Building blocks in innovation systems in developing countries : challenges under globalization -- pt. IV. IS … viewpoint. The Handbook brings eminent scholars in economics, innovation and development studies together with promising young …pt. I. Innovation and development -- pt. II. Scales in innovation systems : theoretical progress and empirical overview …

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

The genesis and diffusion of innovation depends upon the density of the cognitive and market relationships among … economic and social origins of innovation …pt. 1. Core linkages in the genesis of innovation: the knowledge dimension -- pt. 2. Military-based innovation networks …