accelerated by the forces of globalization. These transition economies can serve as laboratories for understanding the innovation … innovation system development in the context of small catching-up economies. Smallness, path dependency, and latecomer status of … such economies create some inherent limitations for their innovation systems, but these special characteristic …

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 China's Drive for Innovation -- 2 How Chinese Companies Innovate -- 3 What is … Different About Chinese Innovation? -- 4 Multinational Corporations' Innovation in China -- 5 How Multinational Corporations Can … Organize For Innovation in China -- 6 Open Innovation in China -- 7 Protecting Intellectual Property in China: Legal Provisions …

innovation policies. The first part of the book provides the theoretical background for the subsequent more empirical … cooperative agreements and university-industry relations) on the innovation potentialities of firms and of economic systems … innovation policy, applicable throughout Europe, bearing in mind the diversity of innovation behaviours and strategies. …

used in technological innovation are significantly rare, despite the centrality of these decisions to promote growth in our …