Innovation and Technology

Foreign Firms, Technological Capabilities and Economic Performance

Rajah Rasiah

This book employs novel techniques to compare technological capabilities and economic performance in seven countries at varying stages of industrial development: Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, South Africa and Uganda. Th...

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System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability

Edited by Boelie Elzen, Frank W. Geels, Ken Green

This book considers two main questions: how do system innovations or transitions come about and how can they be influenced by different actors, in particular by governments. The authors identify the theories which can be used to conceptu...

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Technological Learning

Gillian M. Marcelle

This book investigates how individual firms in developing countries undertake technological learning and capability building (TCB) efforts and explains why some developing country firms are world-class and others struggle with these impo...

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Knowledge Spillovers and Knowledge Management

Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Per Flensburg, Sven-Åke Hörte

This book reveals the key importance, in terms of international competitiveness, of firms’ capability to adapt to, and develop, new technologies. At the same time, the authors argue that the sheer complexity of emerging technologies is s...

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Innovation, Growth and Social Cohesion

Bengt-Åke Lundvall

Written by the scholar who, together with Chris Freeman, first introduced the concept of the innovation system, this book brings the literature an important step forward. Based upon extraordinarily rich empirical material, it shows how a...

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Innovation, Space and Economic Development

Peter Nijkamp

This collection brings together Peter Nijkamp’s work in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, growth and spatial development.

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Location, Travel and Information Technology

Peter Nijkamp

This important book collects together Peter Nijkamp’s work on spatial-economic markets, particularly housing and labour markets, and the increasing impact of information technology on mobility and the location of firms, residents and job...

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European Policies for a Knowledge Economy

Maria João Rodrigues

European Policies for a Knowledge Economy explores the information society and research and education policies which are being combined to build a stronger knowledge base, and enhance the growth potential of Europe via economic reforms, ...

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Local Enterprises in the Global Economy

Edited by Hubert Schmitz

This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Lati...

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Creative Knowledge Environments

Edited by Sven Hemlin, Carl Martin Allwood, Ben R. Martin

Although there is an ever increasing demand for new technology and innovations in the economy and society in general, we currently know little about the conditions for stimulating creativity in relation to research and innovative activit...

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Innovation in Technology Alliance Networks

Charmianne E.A.V Lemmens

This book studies the dynamics of alliance group formation in technology-based networks. The author attempts to develop the concept of alliance blocks from a social network perspective, and explores the relationship between alliance bloc...

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