This paper will try to contribute to the understanding of public programs supporting high technology diffusion and transference. The framework utilised will combine the theory of technology and innovation diffusion and the use of value mapping methodology. The article provides empirical evidence...

This important book is about the origins and diffusion of innovation, in theory and in practice. The practice draws on a variety of industries, from electronics to eyewear, from furniture to mechatronics, in a range of economies including Europe, the USA and China.

This paper analyses how the internal resources of small- and medium-sized enterprises determine access (<italic>learning processes</italic>) to technology centres (TCs) or industrial research institutes (<italic>innovation infrastructure</italic>) in traditional low-tech clusters. These interactions basically represent traded...

Knowledge of how customers co-create value, the way that suppliers and providers co-produce services, and how research and development centers and universities transfer technologies is becoming increasingly important to scholars' understanding of service innovation. This paper presents an...