This paper offers a concise and selective overview of regional development theories. Starting from traditional regional growth theory, it introduces next findings from location and agglomeration theory, including infrastructure and network modeling. Next, innovation, entrepreneurship and...

This manual contains a method for research into organizational coinnovation. The coinnovation process is the organizational development and market adoption of original ideas into new goods, services, and practices by cooperating organizations. Coinnovations are the outcomes of the coinnovation...

Organizations that choose or are forced to innovate in co-operation with other organizations, go through four stages of co-innovation strategy development. The stages are successively: (1) autonomous strategy making: organizations develop strategies on their own, (2) co-operative strategy...

This paper discusses the use of patent information by innovative SMEs. The standard literature tends to focus on obtaining patents; studies of using patent information for different purposes are underrepresented in the innovation literature. Studying the case of SMEs is especially interesting,...

De verplaatsing en outsorcing van productie vormt een actueel thema in het huidige beleidsdebat (zie b.v. Gorter, Tang en Toet, 2005). In feite is er niets nieuws onder de zon, maar is dit gewoonweg het gevolg van de voortgaande internationale specialisatie die bijdraagt tot een toename van de...

Diffusion patterns of products are known to differ significantly between countries. Studies that mainly focused on consumer contexts in European countries show that culture has a significant effect on innovation diffusion and consumer innovativeness. In the present research we focus on adoption...

This article presents four basic innovation leadership styles: charismatic, instrumental, strategic and interactive innovation leadership. The leadership styles and their characteristics relate to process and product innovations in construction projects. A theoretical framework - which...

The aim of the paper is to show that e-commerce holds the potential to transform banking and financial systems. There are three aspects in which e-commerce can affect banking and finance. First, banks and financial firms can use the technology and business practice of e-commerce to market their...