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 …

Drawing upon evolutionary economics and resource-based approaches, the author utilises US patent data from 1930-1990 to …

emphasis is given to strategies for the acquisition and commercialization of new technologies, patent strategies and strategies … students and scholars of industrial organization, economics of innovation and technical change, and management of technology …

Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: innovation beyond national systems fragility: institutional bricolage …. 'reassembling the social', in entrepreneurial innovation and academic entrepreneurship studies: the 'amphibious scientists …Europe needs more innovative companies that grow quickly and end up big. This book examines SME growth, innovation and …

theory of economic growth -- 4. Contribution of specific OIs to economic growth and the three axes of OIs -- 5. The process …

boundaries, in facilitating entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The main message of this book is especially timely … scientists, innovation and regional and national immigration / Lynne G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby …

particular the impact of M&As on the innovation process. In so doing, the book integrates two bodies of literature, on M&As, and … on innovation studies, a nexus which the editors contend represents an important step in the advancement of our … management and economics, the book offers a cohesive blend of theory, methodology, and a wealth of empirical material …

This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries' technological … competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period …. Specifically, these patents were granted to "not-for-profit" entities (mainly universities and research institutes), firms with no …

illustrate that patents are at the heart of the economic development of multinationals, start-ups, and the rise of new … in it, drawing a portrait of contemporary capitalism in which the grip of law threatens the pioneers of innovation … for postgraduate students and researchers of the economics of innovation and IP law. Its original empirical analysis will …

, productivity and firm growth -- 6. Innovation and firm growth -- 7. Other determinants of firm growth -- 8. Theoretical …