"Innovation is a beautiful thing. It is a force with both aesthetic and pragmatic appeal: It unleashes our creative … engines of innovation in the Western world, innovation provides both exceptional opportunities and steep challenges. While … innovation is a powerful means of competitive differentiation, enabling firms to penetrate new markets and achieve higher margins …

volume offers an in-depth analysis of the Korean innovation system and shows how its science and technology policies actually …

Without innovation, companies die. Managing the innovation process well is important for companies and for nations as a … whole.This book shows how the innovation process is changing profoundly, with significant implications for managers and … public policy-makers.A new kind of technology, 'innovation technology' is being applied to the innovation process. When used …

potential willingness tocooperate. The result is regional specialization in the innovation process by degree ofcooperation … innovation in theirregions where such direct cooperation was not required... …

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

inextricably connected with both business- and economics-driven dimensions of innovation. In fact, the phenomenon of a foreign …-owned R&D facility implies that a company innovation system must in some way integrate with a regional innovation system. A … enabling a comparison of these innovation environments. The second step was to examine the characteristics of the foreign …