It is a general understanding that the advanced economies are currently undergoing a fundamental transformation into knowledge-based societies. There is a firm belief that this is based on the development of high-tech industries. Correspondingly, in this scenario low-tech sectors appear to be...

The Silicon Dragon is a systematic study of the growth of high-tech giants in the Greater China Region, depicting the success story of the microelectronics industry in Taiwan. The book examines the government policies that acted as catalysts to the growth of high-tech industries in Taiwan, along...

Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: innovation beyond national systems fragility: institutional bricolage for SMEs growth / D. Lauto G. Pittino and F. Visintin -- Part I the context -- 2. Entrepreneurship and technological clusters. the influence of contextual factors on the birth...

Contents: Part I -- Conceptualisation 1. Technological embeddedness as a determinant of techno-entrepreneurship / Sang-Joon Kim and Juil Lee -- Part II: New categories of entrepreneurship -- 2. Reverse innovation: Review of a decade / Max von Zedtwitz and Marine Hadengue -- 3. Modes and routines...

1. Trends and drivers of the knowledge economy / Philip Cooke and Carla De Laurentis -- 2. The rationale for Eurodite and an introduction to the sector studies / Stewart MacNeill and Chris Collinge -- 3. Production-consumption models and knowledge dynamics in the food and drinks sector / Jesper...

This book develops and illustrates a comprehensive, multi-level framework for the evaluation of industrial R&D activities and the measurement of their performances. The framework encompasses a set of hierarchical, interrelated levels at which R&D evaluation and performance measurement could be...

pt. 1. Context : the knowledge economy and different dynamics -- pt. 2. The main actors : entrepreneurs, organizations and milieux : their capacity to develop knowledge -- pt. 3. The factors : information, networks and innovation : necessary and sufficient conditions for entrepreneurship -- pt....

pt. 1. The social desirability of innovation and entrepreneurship -- pt. 2. Institutions, innovation and entrepreneurship -- pt. 3. Knowledge, knowledge spillovers, the geography of innovation and entrepreneurship, and growth -- pt. 4. Technology transfer, innovation and entrepreneurship -- pt....

This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyse the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and...

Innovation in Small Family Businesses explores how innovation is developed and carried out in small family-owned businesses, the factors underpinning it, and the innovation drivers and barriers in these firms’ context. Sylvie Laforet also offers suggestions on how innovation can be fostered...