Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters: Findings and Insights from the US, EU and Japan

by Elias G. Carayannis (Editor), Dimitris G Assimakopoulos (Editor), M. Kondo (Editor)

Overview

The focus of this manuscript is on profiling, analyzing, benchmarking, and modelling in socio-technical terms, ways and means that creativity, invention and innovation are manifested and flourish in select American, European, and Asian knowledge-based innovation networks and knowledge clusters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403942456
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/14/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	414
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

JINHUI AN Doctoral Candidate, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China DIMITRIS ASSIMAKOPOULOS Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Doctorate of Business Administration Programs, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France PROF. DAVID CHARLES David Goldman Chair of Business Innovation, Institute for Policy and Practice, Newcastle University, UK JONG-IN CHOI Associate Professor, Department of Management, Hanbat National University, Korea SALLY DAVENPORT Associate Professor, Victoria Management School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand DANTE DI GREGORIO Assistant Professor, Anderson School, University of New Mexico, USA NIKOS I. DIMITRIADIS Lecturer in Marketing, Sheffield University Management School, UK RAFIQ DOSSANI Senior Research Scholar, Asia-Pacific Research Center KILPYO HONG Associate Professor, Department of Management, Baekseok University, Korea SENUGKWON JANG Associate Professor, Department of Logistics and Information Systems, Sungkonghoe University, Korea NANNAN LUNDIN OECD, Science Technology Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, Paris, France KRISTIE OGILVIE Grenoble Ecole de Management, France MIKE PROVANCE Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship, Robins School of Business, University of Richmond and School of Business, George Washington University, USA OLLI VUOLA Visiting Scholar, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA VIVIENNE WANG PhD Candidate, School of Business and Public Management, George Washington University, USA DR LIU XIELIN Research Fellow and Professor, National Center for Science and Technology for Development, Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing, China

Table of Contents

The Role of the Firm in Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters Measuring Firm Innovative Performance Academic Entrepreneurship Buyer Discourse Perspective on Market Entry Impact of Information Flow on Industry Resilience Big Science as a Catalyst of New Business Development Knowledge-based Geospatial Information System and the Informational Space Economy From Regional Innovation Strategies to the Multi-level Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation Information Flow and Global Competitiveness of Industrial Districts The Role of Clusters and Regional Networks in Economic Transformation Weak Ties and Innovation among Indian and Chinese Engineers in Silicon Valley K-CORES, Team Dynamics and Intra organizational Development in an Aerospace Firm Venturing Clusters The Role of the Government and the Academia Industry Network in Biopharmaceutical Industry of China From Bureaucratic Mode of Technological Entrepreneurship to Clustering Mode of Technological Entrepreneurship Innovation Symbiosis among Geographical Knowledge Networks To Cluster or not to Cluster? The Growth of High-Tech Firms in New Zealand

Editorial Reviews

'Many chapters contain origianl conceptual and/or empirical analyses that are worth reading and provide useful avenues for further investigation.' Odile E.M Janne, Research Policy

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