, maintenance or decline. Including chapters from leading theorists and researchers from around the world, this Handbook presents …

reconciles how key factors such as industrialization, innovation, and infrastructure can influence a nation's competitiveness. He …

Contents: Introduction: Shared foundations and diverse inquiries for advancing creativity and innovation research … / Jing Zhou and Elizabeth D. Rouse -- Part I: Foundations of creativity and innovation research -- 1. Conducting rigorous … creativity and innovation / Daan van Knippenberg and Inga J. Hoever -- 4. Creativity and standardization: Tension …

1. Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture, a matter of interaction between technology, progress and economic growth …? : an introduction -- 2. Conceptualizing innovation management and culture in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region … of hope? -- 7. Entrepreneurship and the design process : the paradox of innovation in a routine design process -- 8 …

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 …

This book examines the nature of social innovation processes which determine the economic and social performance of …

"This comprehensive Handbook presents thoughtful analysis on how regulations can impact innovation within a number of … future research. The Handbook of Innovation and Regulation embraces some of the key policy areas such as the regulation of … innovation. Reviewing these often interconnected policy areas in terms of both macroeconomic and microeconomic issues, this …

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 …