Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries make radical innovations but fail to successfully...

"This book addresses the crucial relationship between a business and its technical implementations, and how current innovations are changing how the industry operates by highlighting current theoretical frameworks, novel empirical research discoveries, and fundamental literature surveys"--

Based on an original research program, this book empirically appraises the dissemination of knowledge relevant to the innovative activities of European industry. Economists, business and management specialists and policy-makers will be interested in this new book.