and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis goes on to analyse the strategic behaviour of SMEs and the key factors that allow … -- Chapter 3 The Competitiveness of Italian Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) -- Chapter 4 A Survey on Monza and Brianza …This book focuses on the relationship between business strategy and competition among Italian SMEs in the aftermath of …

book examines the case of Germany as one of the world's major industrial nations, which is facing loss of competitiveness …

competitiveness of enterprises, industries and economies. It presents a multi-criteria approach to the problem of selecting effective … innovative projects and innovative technologies that increase competitiveness in high-tech industries. Further, the book develops … technologies on the competitiveness of high-tech products …

Competitiveness? An Empirical Analysis of Japanese Manufacturing Industries -- Part II Innovation in Japan -- Chapter-05: Measuring …This book addresses three important concepts in the economy-competition, innovation, and growth-using various cases and … innovation while providing new innovation indicators. Moreover, the authors examine growth from the perspective of corporate …

Editorial Introduction -- Part I: Socio-Economic Impacts of Tourism -- Part II: Innovation and Competitiveness in … determinants of tourism competitiveness at the destination level. The authors offer a systematic overview of this important issue … of tourism development, in particular those related to the role of innovation and human resources. The final section …

Relevance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Ability of Non-R&D-Performing and Non-R&D-Intensive Firms: Summary of the Empirical …Introduction -- Innovation in Low-Tech Industries: Current Conditions and Future Prospects -- Economic Relevance and … Environment and Competitive Factors of Non-R&D-Performing and Non-R&D-Intensive Firms -- Innovation Strategies and Patterns of Non …

Recent developments in economics have gone from the recognition of the importance of innovation for growth and the … exploration of innovation mechanisms to the incorporation of the results of the previous research into economic models. An … mechanisms of innovation creation and diffusion, the importance of agent heterogeneity, of market selection processes, of the …