This comprehensive volume integrates pathbreaking and seminal scholarship from two interrelated fields - innovation and entrepreneurship - with the chapters providing a compelling link between the two. The editors seek to introduce and contextualize some of the most important research. Topics...

Throughout the developed and developing worlds, education spending is seen as a key tool for government policy makers in the quest for economic growth. Promoting 'human capital' development is a prime objective for economic and education ministries. The seminal articles discussed in this...

Concerns about natural resource scarcity, together with the increased awareness of environmental problems, has led to widespread interest in green accounting, which attempts to extend the standard national accounts to include the yields from natural and environmental resources. For this volume,...

Competition law and policy is a topical and relevant field of research which has been analysed from both global and national perspectives. This authoritative research review is the first of its kind to bring together seminal works from leading scholars in economic development and in competition...

This book addresses this imbalance with new country studies on the interaction between foreign direct investment (FDI) and technological activity in building export competitiveness. The book covers China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand,...

The G7, anti-globalism and the governance of globalization : setting the scene / Chiara Oldani, Jan Wouters and Alex Andrione-Moylan -- Advancing global openness : G7 governance of globalization / John J. Kirton -- The master frames of globalization and the G7 : beyond the left and right...

Apps für mobile Zahlungen, Online-to-Offline-Services wie Essensbestellung oder andere Lieferungen - die digitale Mittelschicht Chinas ist nicht nur weitaus zahlreicher, sie nutzt neue Technologien auch selbstverständlicher als andere. Damit setzt eine neue Wachstumsgeschichte Chinas im...

"The People's Republic of China (PRC) has been growing at an unprecedented rate since economic reforms were initiated in 1978, achieving an average annual real GDP growth rate of 9.7% over the entire period through 2015. As a consequence, the PRC has achieved a remarkably successful transition...

This book scrutinizes global financial flows and stocks, both financial assets and liabilities and their impact on the global balance of economic power, especially as they affect the largest and fastest-growing countries in both the developed and the developing world. It shows how financial...