This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems …. It emphasises the importance of these factors in the emergence of local innovation systems, using detailed examples of … political perspective, and highlight the local mechanisms which are involved in the development of innovation systems. They …

Managing New Product Development and Innovation provides a new approach to the microeconomics of innovation by … measuring the technical quality of new products and guiding the managers of innovation and technology in the central … new product development and innovation. By quantifying product features and evaluating the costs and market value of …

This book investigates the relationship between corporate governance, market structure and innovation. The editors …pt. 1. Market structure, corporate governance and innovation -- pt. 2. Privatization, liberalization and R&D activities …

-firm and inter-institutional collaboration: the theory of transaction costs and contracts, evolutionary theory, and the …

Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry traces the discovery and development of drugs in Japan and the UK both …-asthmatic drugs -- 5. Histamine H2 antagonists -- 6. LHRH analogues -- 7. Three case studies of pharmaceutical innovation in Japan …

As an ever-increasing amount of innovation takes place within networks, companies are collaborating in developing and …1. Knowledge and innovation in networks : a conceptual framework / Ard-Pieter de Man ... [et al.] 2. Networks as the … organization form of the knowledge economy / Ard-Pieter de Man -- 3. Organizing knowledge sharing in networks : the theory / Elco …