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41. 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
42. Governance and Innovation

    A historical view

    By Maria Brouwer

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    "This provocative book applies law and finance theory to a wide range of issues bearing on corporate governance and business history. Brouwer's analysis should hold particular interest for students and scholars interested in comparative governance." Joseph A. McCahery, Professor of Corporate...

    Published March 25th 2008 by Routledge
43. Localised Technological Change

    Towards the Economics of Complexity

    By Cristiano Antonelli

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    The extent to which firms can react creatively to rather than adjust passively against new techniques and practices is dependent on their command of technological knowledge and relative competence. This book explores the characteristics of the path dependent dynamics of localized technological...

    Published January 30th 2008 by Routledge
44. Dynamic Capabilities Between Firm Organisation and Local Systems of Production

    Edited by Riccardo Leoncini, Sandro Montresor

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    Changes in technology and demand require firms to learn how to continuously reshape unique and non-imitable resources and competences. A firm’s capacity to achieve this is captured by the concept of dynamic capabilities. This book offers an analysis of how firms manage to reconfigure their pool of...

    Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge
45. Entry and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms

    By Marco Vivarelli

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    Entry and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms focuses on newborn firms, analyzing the determinants of entry, survival and post-entry performance. Written by a world leading expert on industrial dynamics, whose previous book The Employment Impact of Innovation was very popular, this book...

    Published April 18th 2007 by Routledge
46. MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science

    By Henry Etzkowitz

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science is a timely and authoritative book that analyses the transformation of the university's role in society as an expanded one involving economic and social development as well as teaching and research. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented the...

    Published January 2nd 2007 by Routledge
47. Entrepreneurship

    A New Perspective

    By Thomas Grebel

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing. Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network dynamics which discuss certain perspectives of entrepreneurial behaviour. This insightful book closes this gap in...

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
48. The Economics of Innovation, New Technologies and Structural Change

    By Cristiano Antonelli

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    The ongoing process of revising and rethinking the foundations of economic theory leads to great complexities and contradictions at the heart of economics. ‘Economics of innovation’ provides a fertile challenge to standard economics, and one that can help it overcome its many criticisms. This...

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
49. Evaluating Public Research Institutions

    The U.S. Advanced Technology Program's Intramural Research Initiative

    By Albert N. Link, John T. Scott

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    Arguably one of the United States' hallmark public sector research programs, the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) aims to assist US business in creating and applying new technologies in order to maintain a competitive edge in a rapidly changing world economy. Delivering a unique, systematic...

    Published September 7th 2005 by Routledge
50. Knowledge and Innovation in Regional Industry

    An Entrepreneurial Coalition

    By Roel Rutten

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    This superb new book develops a knowledge-based theory of innovation, marrying three streams of literature: innovation, inter-firm collaboration and networks, and learning regions. This book will interest all those working in economic geography and the economics of innovation....

    Published August 13th 2003 by Routledge