The combination of the COVID-19 Pandemic and global trade tensions seem likely to make 2020 / 2021 a turning point in the global economy of the same importance as the Great Depression of the 1930’s and combined breakdown of the Bretton Woods system and Oil Crisis of the 1970’s. Post 1980...

All countries, especially facing a posit COVID-19 disrupted world, are keen to promote economic development that will be resilient to future external shocks. Over the years many different forms of “development structure” have been attempted including Export Processing Zones, Special Economic...

Experiences arising from recent geo-political tensions, natural disasters such as the 2011 Japanese Tōhoku Earthquake, the Covid-19 Pandemic and the 2022 Russo – Ukrainian war have all illustrated the fragility of the global supply chains to exogenous shocks. Shocks always occur, but the...

What is the role of trade to both expedite growth and to provide the transformative innovations needed in our post-Pandemic, post-Brexit, unstable world? Using historical examples to demonstrate how complex forces interplay into virtuous or vicious cycles of cumulative causation, Simmons and...

Purpose – The growth in popularity of the regional innovation system approach has, in part, been driven by the need for economies to respond to the after shocks of the global financial crisis. At the same time, the author sees the term anchor institutions are used increasingly to describe...

Purpose – Using the case study of a small firm this research study aims to understand the actions required for diffusion of an innovation in a small firm. Design/methodology/approach – The research used a qualitative approach involving interviews, referring to archival documentation and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore, evaluate and share the motivations and behaviours of student and graduate entrepreneurs (referred to as SGSUs) operating from university incubators. The study aims to understand the behaviours and motivations of SGSUs to build on the existing...