This book is a major step forward in understanding the learning behaviour of clustered technology-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Drawing upon qualitative and quantitative research methods and sampling techniques, it identifies how learning for innovation is stimulated or...

This paper examines the effect of different types of international knowledge accumulation on the internationalization of venture capital firms, as a particular type of professional service firms. We distinguish between experiential knowledge acquired through previous activities, inherited...

Develops an original and policy-relevant framework for analysing the way differences in institutional contexts, such as work organisation, labour markets, education and training systems, financial systems, and systems of social protection, shape learning processes and innovation performance...

Starting from the scenarios of the knowledge economy (Drucker, 1999) and the Europe 2020 strategy (Commissione Europea, 2010), in the present contribution the Flipped Inclusion model (De Giuseppe & Corona, 2016) is outlined in a complex blended learning modality, within a built-in trajectory...

The so-called "European Paradox" holdsthat European Union countries play a leading global role in terms of high-levelscientific output, but lag behind in their ability to convert this strengthinto wealth-generating innovations. This study argues that the paradox isincorrect and hence, that the...