inside a network, or the building of an epistemic community : the Telecom Valley case study / Nathalie Lazaric and Catherine …

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 …

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 …

Innovation Networks in Knowledge-based Firms explores corporate strategic management in an information and … communication technology (ICT) environment, and illustrates the significance of new business models based on 'boundary innovation … service innovation in ICT industries, such as search and advertising (Yahoo, Google), music distribution (Apple iPod) and …

relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain … 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 …

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 …

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 …

1. Introduction / David Smallbone, Markku Virtanen and Arnis Sauka -- Part I innovation -- 2. Innovation processes in … development -- 4. Entrepreneurship and industrial policy in Ireland / Colm O'Gorman and Declan Curran -- 5. Towards Europe: the …Entrepreneurship and innovation are arguably the main drivers of economic development today. This book explores the two …