"This book examines the politics of technology, and provides a detailed analysis of developments and debates within the European Union, international trade and governance.An important empirical contribution to the literature on the relations between politics and technology, this volume contains...

Zwar nutzten Unternehmen in den letzten Jahren verstärkt Corporate-Venture-Capital-Programme, doch blieb die wissenschaftliche Diskussion zu Zielsetzungen und stategischen Wirkungen solcher Programme bisher begrenzt. Behrend Freese geht der Frage nach, welchen strategischen Mehrwert...

Contents: Part I -- Conceptualisation 1. Technological embeddedness as a determinant of techno-entrepreneurship / Sang-Joon Kim and Juil Lee -- Part II: New categories of entrepreneurship -- 2. Reverse innovation: Review of a decade / Max von Zedtwitz and Marine Hadengue -- 3. Modes and routines...

Nadine Scholz shows that crowdfunding potentially shortens the development cycle of new products, thus enabling an earlier market entry. Hence, crowdfunding serves as a multifaceted early-stage support instrument for innovation implementation facilitated by the crowd's resources. It not only...