This innovative and clearly written book examines the process of diversification as a strategy to promote innovation … industry, using cases of diversification at Dassault (France), Saab (Sweden) and Daewoo (South Korea), the author examines … diversification process. He then uses these findings to propose a new, original model for diversification. Key features include: * an …

analysing and understanding innovation in services. He provides interesting and extensive empirical material on the nature and … sources of innovation in various services sectors and countries, and makes an original contribution both to theories of … innovation in services and theories of innovation in general. Taking both an evolutionary and conventionalist stance, he …

's post-industrial economies; innovation as it relates to services …pt. I. Services and innovation : conceptual and analytical frameworks -- pt. II. The nature of innovation in services … : sectoral analyses and case studies -- pt. III. Organisational and strategic patterns for service innovation -- pt. IV …

Innovation networks in industries and sectoral systems: an introduction / Franco Malerba and Nicholas S. Vonortas … -- Innovation networks in industry / Nicholas S. Vonortas -- The dynamics of networks and the evolution of industries: a survey of … networks in ICT / Stefano Breschi ... [et al.] -- Evaluating the links between research and deployment networks of innovation …

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 … horticulture networks bloom / Ard-Pieter de Man and Erik van Raaij -- 8. The fibres that hold an innovation network : an analysis …

This book examines in detail the features and dynamics of sectoral systems of innovation and production in developing … is necessary if innovation is to be encouraged and growth sustained …

performance of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 3. Kenya -- 4. Tanzania -- 5. Uganda -- 6. Ghana -- 7. Zimbabwe. …This unique study draws on extensive fieldwork assessing technology systems in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and …

evolutionary economics and innovation system studies, and relate this approach to existing theories in a broad range of fields …1. Introduction / Elias G. Carayannis, Aris Kaloudis and Åge Mariussen -- 2. Technological evolution, innovation and … in the knowledge economy and society / Elias G. Carayannis -- 6. Towards a communicative theory of diverse innovation …

change. The book explores the changing nature of this diversification with respect to firm size, technological relatedness …-purpose technologies. Although historically, diversification is associated with an increase in firm size, the author argues that in recent …