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31. Competing for Knowledge

    Creating, Connecting, and Growing

    By Robert Huggins, Hiro Izushi

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    Focusing on the dynamics of the knowledge economy, this volume provides an overview of the knowledge creation capabilities of economies, an examination of their growth performance and a detailed analysis of how the creation and connection of knowledge is becoming the key means of growing...

    Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge
32. Competitiveness of New Industries

    Institutional Framework and Learning in Information Technology in Japan, the U.S and Germany

    Edited by Cornelia Storz, Andreas Moerke

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    Many recent books on information and communication technologies concentrate on individual country experiences or neglect to analyze political factors in conjunction with entrepreneurial ones. This book, the result of an international research project, comprises a comprehensive comparison of three...

    Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
33. Changes in Regional Firm Founding Activities

    A Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Evidence

    By Dirk Fornahl

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    Part of the highly successful Studies in Global Competition series and written by an author based at the Max Planck Institute in Germany – one of the world’s leading centres of evolutionary economics, this book looks at the medium to long term development of firm founding activity. Developing a...

    Published August 11th 2009 by Routledge
34. Economics of the Firm

    Analysis, Evolution and History

    By Michael Dietrich

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    This book brings together some of the world's leading experts to present an interdisciplinary, critical perspective on current issues surrounding the economics of the firms. It eschews standard approaches to the economics of the firm (including analysis of transaction costs) in favour of a more...

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
35. Targeting Regional Economic Development

    Edited by Stephan J. Goetz, Steven Deller, Tom Harris

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    Targeting regional economic development (TRED) has a long and rich tradition among academic economists and in the world of economic development practitioners. This book builds on a series of workshops and papers organized by The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD) at the...

    Published March 25th 2009 by Routledge
36. Entrepreneurship and Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy

    Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson, Roger Stough

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    The phenomenon of entrepreneurship has attracted researchers from a variety of disciplines and a diverse number of analytical approaches. Currently, there is a considerable amount of confusion and a variety of conflicting theories which are being used interchangeably and ambiguously. In...

    Published February 18th 2009 by Routledge
37. Innovation, Technology and Hypercompetition

    Review and Synthesis

    By Hans-Werner Gottinger

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    In an increasingly technologically-led century the striking pattern emerging in firms’ innovative activities is their competition for a technological leadership position in situations best described as races. A 'race' is an interactive pattern characterized by firms constantly trying to get ahead...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
38. Innovation, Knowledge and Power in Organizations

    By Theodora Asimakou

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    This book examines discourses of knowledge and innovation in post-industrial societies and knowledge-based organizations. The author investigates the value of knowledge and the question of innovation management in a fully commercial environment for a technology company. In contrast with most of...

    Published December 11th 2008 by Routledge
39. Broadband Economics

    Lessons from Japan

    By Takanori Ida

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest state-of-the-art services drawing international attention. In this book the author introduces the current status of broadband services in Japan and their recent development...

    Published September 11th 2008 by Routledge
40. Public Policy for Regional Development

    Edited by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, François Vaillancourt

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    This book draws on the expertise of both North American and European specialists of regional economics, evaluating the impact of economic policy in certain regions and considering alternative policies to foster regional economic development and improve the employment and income of the residents of...

    Published May 19th 2008 by Routledge