Por lo menos desde los tiempos de Pareto (1897) se reconoce que una pequeña fracción de la población controla una gran proporción del ingreso total de una sociedad. Para algunos, la distribución del ingreso es quizás el primer ejemplo de una ley de potencia, regla empírica bajo la cual...

This paper reviews and analyses the rationale for an innovation policy in services. It focuses on the relevance of the various categories of market and system failures, on the basis of economic arguments and some empirical evidence at EU level. Results show that market and system failures affect...

Desde que la globalización se ha convertido en uno de los aspectos de mayor relevancia dentro del estudio de las evoluciones de la economía internacional, la importancia dada al fenómeno de la integración económica se ha incrementado progresivamente. Este fenómeno de globalización está...

This book is devoted to the study of public–private innovation networks in services (ServPPINs). These are a new type of innovation network which have rapidly developed in service economies. ServPPINs are collaborations between public and private service organisations, their objective...

This book is devoted to the study of public–private innovation networks in services (ServPPINs). These are a new type of innovation network which have rapidly developed in service economies. ServPPINs are collaborations between public and private service organisations, their objective...

This paper analyzes the relationships between firms' external search of knowledge and its role in cooperation strategies for innovation. In particular, this study accounts for differences between public and private external sources of knowledge and between private–private and public–private...

Abstract What are the eects of natural disasters on electoral results? Some authors claim that catastrophes have a negative eect on the survival of leaders in a democracy because voters have a propensity to punish politicians for not preventing or poorly handling a crisis. In contrast, this...

Purpose – The paper aims to discuss how services and service innovation are inter‐linked and support organisational innovation. In particular, the reorganisation of operations and the introduction of new organisational arrangements are examined and conceptualised for further empirical...