This volume explores the essence of the fashion evolution has been constant innovation, which is the utilization of new ideas to produce new products, processes, services or business practices. As an initial attempt to understand innovation in fashion, this volume focuses on product innovations,...

Einführung -- Management von Kernkompetenzen bei Technologieunternehmen -- Technische Limits -- Technologiemonitoring -- Technology-Push- und Lead-User-Ansatz -- Marktorientierte Innovation -- Ideenmanagement -- Mit Technologietransfermanagement Innovationen vorbereiten -- Identifizierung und...

The Geography of Small Firm Innovation offers a unique look at the importance of geographic proximity to the innovative activity of high-tech small firms. The book explores the concentration of innovation across metropolitan areas in the United States during the 1990s, by introducing a novel...

This volume highlights the importance of interactive, practice-based learning as a means to promote more thorough innovation dynamics in regional and national economies. Successful experiences in Scandanavia and southern European countries are examined, with insightful policy lessons extracted...

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 book explores the unfinished India-Pakistan Trade normalisation agenda (building upon the themes covered in the book “India-Pakistan Trade: Strengthening Economic Relations” published by Springer in 2014) and discusses the steps that must be undertaken in order to move the bilateral...

This book examines the interplay between trade and the environment, with a focus on the Indian textile sector. While it is often claimed that developed countries’ non-tariff trade measures adversely affect the trade prospects of developing countries, establishing that claim systematically is a...