The book aims to explore the regional innovation capability of China, especially how the frontier regions of China (Guangdong, Jiangsu, Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Tianjin) transform themselves from an investment-driven economy into an innovation-driven one. With detailed case, data and...

Part 1 Big Tree with Thick Trunk and its Fruits -- 1 Research Aim and Framework -- 2 Theoretical Background: General Purpose Technology, Pattern of Innovation, and Spin-out -- 3 Data -- 4 Technological Characteristics of Laser and Laser Diode -- Part 2 R&D and Market Competition of Laser Diodes...

The Philosophy of Paradigm Change in the History of Social Evolution -- Paradigm Changes in Technological Knowledge Connections in Urban Innovation Systems -- International Standardization of the New Technology Paradigm: A Strategy for Royalty-Free Intellectual Property -- New roles for Japanese...

Country origin of FDI in India manufacturing and its impact on productivity spillover -- Knowledge spillover mechanisms -- Implications of International harmonization of IPR on growth, TFP and welfare -- Determinants of R&D Behavior of Foreign Firms in India -- Foreign Direct Investments and...

Chapter 1: Introduction to innovation activities -- Chapter 2: The role of SME’s in innovation activities -- Chapter 3: Overview of innovation activities in Southeast Asia -- Chapter 4: From Linear model to Chain Linked model of innovation in reaching firm characteristics that facilitate and...

Rise of Manufacturing Nation -- Industrialization Process of 40 Years -- The development of China’s Manufacturing -- Opportunities and Challenges of China’s Manufacturing -- Resolving Overcapacity -- Technological Innovation in Manufacturing Industry -- Intelligent Manufacturing -- Green...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Survey design and summary statistics -- Chapter 3. Innovation output -- Chapter 4. R&D organizational structure -- Chapter 5. Staged R&D project management -- Chapter 6. Incentive schemes -- Chapter 7. Risk preference, time preference, and corporate culture...

1 Researching values in leadership and organisation. Introduction -- Part I: Methodological approaches to researching values -- 2 Values at work: Mapping the field through the lens of methodological approaches -- 3 Definitions as Initial and Final Point of Values Research? Searching for...

Einleitung – Der Weg zur Programmable Economy -- APIs – ein erster Überblick -- APIs als digitale Produkte -- APIs in Unternehmen -- Anwendungsszenarien von APIs -- Von der API Economy zur Programmable Economy -- Case Studies -- Top- Down: API Change Management -- Bottom-Up: How to start --...

This book identifies ten linguistic traps in our everyday language usage and provides philosophical justification for a method of determining internally consistent definitions of groups of related terms that avoid all ten traps. Various examples and applications of this method are given...