Service innovation is a young but prolific research field, with a rapidly increasing number of publications being … selected address the key focuses of the subject, including the theories, nature and measurement of innovation in services as … well as the role of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) in client innovation and other concerns …

The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic … problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The first … part examines the theoretical consequences of services specificities on the concept of productivity and reviews the …

Building strong and dynamic systems of innovation constitutes a key challenge for the post-socialist economies of … systems may emerge. The Dynamics of Innovation in Eastern Europe explains, in particular, how this has been possible in the … case of the Estonian system of innovation in telecommunications. The book shows that the socialist historical heritage, and …

service productivity and innovation, and call for a conceptual re-working of the ways in which these are measured. They also …pt. 1. Productivity and performances in services -- pt. 2. Innovation in services and through services … relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain …

innovation / Ian Miles -- Small and medium-sized enterprises and the consumption of traded (producer service expertise) versus … -- The nature of services / Sven Illeris -- Services and innovation : conceptual and theoretical perspectives / Jeremy …

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 …

important contributions. Firstly, it elaborates the hypothesis that total factor productivity growth stems from pecuniary …pt. 1. The localized generation and exploitation of technological knowledge and innovation -- pt. 2. The Italian …

diffusion of technology, and provides fresh evidence on the effects that these differences have on productivity and innovation …pt. 1. The changing role of multinational firms in innovation -- pt. 2. How firms differ in innovation, productivity …