Foreword -- 1 Reshuffling the world -- 2 Chinese Culture, Strategy and Innovation.- 3 Innovation Policies in China, US and EU -- 4 Demystifying Strategic Innovation.- 5 Strategic Innovation in Practice -- 6 How to Win the Battle on Innovation?

The subsequent volume revolves around the Social-Fields-Approach (SOFIA) as anapproach to conceptualization and operationalisation for the purpose of empiricalresearch. It contributes a new perspective and approach in research on innovation.We believe that SOFIA can have implications for both...

Economic globalization has intensified since the 1980s and created faster channels of international interdependence and an accelerating technology race. In this new asymmetric world economy the EU is facing a dynamic and flexible US system which takes advantage of the global quest for foreign...