Recommended readings (Machine generated): George V. Thompson (1954), 'Intercompany, Technical Standardization in the Early American Automobile Industry', Journal of Economic History, 14 (1), Winter, 1-20 -- Charles P. Kindleberger (1983), 'Standards as Public, Collective and Private Goods',...

This book examines knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) with a focus on the European textile and apparel industries. The primary purpose is to review the extant academic literature related to the European textile and apparel industries and reflect on that review empirically using a new and...

This research collection illustrates the wide range of methodologies and methods available for the evaluation of public programs. All these methods address the benefits of the programs and most compare the benefits to costs, but the types of benefits and their measures vary greatly across the...

This volume presents the most important contributions of the last decade in the fields of science and innovation, demonstrating the key relationship between the two. Early chapters emphasize the intrinsic characteristics of knowledge as an economic activity, and later chapters document the...

Introduction -- Forget R&D - pay my coach: young innovative companies and their relations with universities -- The Role of Research Orientation for Attracting Competitive Research Funding -- The cooperative strategy of technology transfer offices: A longitudinal study -- Academic...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Motivating Entrepreneurship and Innovation Activity -- Chapter 3 Publicly Funded Principal Investigators as Transformative Agents of Public Sector Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 4 An Innovation Policy Framework -- Chapter 5 Radical and Incremental Innovation and...