Innovation and Technology
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Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities
Edited by Tan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis, Francisco Javier Carrillo
This unique book reveals the procedural aspects of knowledge-based urban planning, development and assessment. Concentrating on major knowledge city building processes, and providing state-of-the-art experiences and perspectives, this im...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Foundations of the Knowledge Economy
Edited by Knut Ingar Westeren
This book presents new evidence concerning the influential role of context and institutions on the relations between knowledge, innovation, clusters and learning. From a truly international perspective, the expert contributors capture t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Second Tier Regions
Heike Mayer
Second tier high-tech regions are taking a different path than their well-known counterparts such as Silicon Valley or Route 128 around Boston. They may lack many prerequisites of growth such as a world-class research university or high ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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User-based Innovation in Services
Edited by Jon Sundbo, Marja Toivonen
This book demonstrates pioneering work on user-based service innovation using an analytical framework. This approach involves understanding the needs of users, the service firms collaborating with them, and recognising the fact that user...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Biotechnology and Innovation Systems
Edited by Bo Göransson, Carl Magnus Pålsson
This book explores how policies targeting public research institutions, such as universities, contribute to the appropriation of biotechnology through national innovation systems.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Improving Energy Efficiency through Technology
Edited by Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Henri L.F. de Groot, Peter Mulder
This innovative book explores the adoption of energy-saving technologies and their impact on energy efficiency improvements. It contains a mix of theoretical and empirical contributions, and combines and compares economic and physical in...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Academic Entrepreneurship in Asia
Edited by Poh Kam Wong
This timely book examines the rising phenomenon of academic entrepreneurship and technology commercialization among leading universities in Asia, by presenting in-depth analysis of thirteen leading universities from nine Asian economies,...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy
Graham Room
Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualisation and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result, researchers are ill-equipped to offer policy advice. This book offers a new analytica...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Copyright Law and the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts
Alina Ng
The American Constitution empowers Congress to enact copyright laws to ‘promote the progress of science and the useful arts’. This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the connection between copyright law as a legal institution and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Networks, Complexity and Internet Regulation
Andrés Guadamuz
Complexity theory as a subject has gained increasing prominence across numerous disciplines including physics, biology, sociology and economics. Large interconnected systems such as the Internet display a number of inherent architectural... -
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Industrial Clusters, Upgrading and Innovation in East Asia
Edited by Akifumi Kuchiki, Masatsugu Tsuji
This lucid and informative book analyzes the problem of clusters in transition through studies of agglomerations at different stages of development in various East Asian countries.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences
Edited by Marian V Jones, Colin Wheeler, Pavlos Dimitratos
In this thought-provoking book, leading experts explore why international entrepreneurship is important to the life sciences industry. From multi-disciplinary and cross-national perspectives, they question why international entrepreneurs...eBook:Find out more$40.00