that creativity, invention and innovation are manifested and flourish in select American, European, and Asian knowledge …-based innovation networks and knowledge clusters. This book will present a number of conceptual and emperical studies from the USA …

accelerated by the forces of globalization. These transition economies can serve as laboratories for understanding the innovation … innovation system development in the context of small catching-up economies. Smallness, path dependency, and latecomer status of … such economies create some inherent limitations for their innovation systems, but these special characteristics can offer …

application (innovation). The academic firm interprets and qualifies a disciplinary (interdisciplinary) variety of the background … design (and redesign) for entrepreneurship in innovation-driven knowledge economy. …

composed of "elements", which are tied together by a "self-rationale". For innovation, often innovation clusters and innovation … networks are being regarded as important. By leveraging systems theory for innovation concepts, one can implement references … between the elements of a system and clusters (innovation clusters) and the selfrationale of a system and that of networks …