Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Inclusion and innovation : a call to action / Gerard George, Ted Baker, Paul Tracey and Havovi Joshi -- Part II: Social innovation in practice -- 2. A silent evolution : innovative and inclusive narratives on sustainability / Ana Cristina Campos Marques -- 3....

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....

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...

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...

The book enriches an important debate in management and in academia on the new product development process. It encompasses marketing approaches and is sharply focused on the opportunities that digital technologies have created for involving customers in collaborative innovation, and actionable...

Contents: 1. The new frontier of innovation -- 2. Innovation pioneers - the essential role of users, on-line user communities and the crowd -- 3. Exploring the changing landscape of Innovation: the rise of users, on-line communities and the crowd -- 4. Mapping the new world of innovation - the...

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: 1. Service innovation research methods / Flemming Sørensen and Francesco Lapenta -- 2. Quantitative measurement instruments: a case of developing a method for measuring innovation in service firms / Jon Sundbo -- 3. The critical incident technique and everyday innovation / Lars...

Introduction -- Public policies to foster academic spin-offs -- Types of spin-offs -- Processes at the institutional level : incubation models -- Processes at the firm level : phases and models of development -- Entrepreneurial teams in spin-offs -- Financial constraints and access to finance --...