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Platforms of Innovation
Edited by Philip Cooke, Carla De Laurentis, Stewart MacNeill, Chris Collinge
'This is a book of high interest for scholars, practitioners and policy-makers interested in innovation, knowledge flows and respective policies. A number of well-known authors investigate drivers of innovation, the dynamics of networks,...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Promoting New Telecom Infrastructures
Edited by Morten Falch, Jan Markendahl
‘. . . the book is highly informative on a major contemporary issue in telecommunications: investments in the transition to next generation networks. The contributions provide a wide range of perspectives on the issues including novel ap... -
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International Fragmentation of Production
Nobuaki Yamashita
‘Japanese firms are major players in East Asian production supply chains, by outsourcing labour-intensive parts of the production process to nearby low-wage economies (production fragmentation). This excellent empirical study first uses ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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SMEs in a Globalised World
Edited by Helena Lenihan, Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan, Mark Hart
This insightful book shows how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from some of the traditionally less dynamic peripheral economies of the ‘old’ EU – namely Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain – have responded to the twin challenges of gl...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Cognitive Theory of the Firm
Bart Nooteboom
‘A thought provoking, original and personal contribution to the emerging field of cognitive economics, integrating insights from a variety of innovative research streams in neighboring social sciences including neural science, social cog...eBook:Find out more$45.60
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The Governance of Network Industries
Edited by Rolf W. Kunneke, John Groenewegen, Jean-François Auger
Infrastructures are subject to substantial readjustments of governance structures, often labeled as liberalization, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, tra...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Information Technology and Productivity Growth
Theo S. Eicher, Thomas Strobel
‘Eicher and Strobel have traced the recent US productivity acceleration and the German productivity slump to substantially higher levels of investment in information and communications technology in the United States. They have demonstra... -
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Electricity Reform in Europe
Edited by Jean-Michel Glachant, François Lévêque
‘The SESSA study on the Internal Energy Market was an important and influential contribution towards the Commission’s proposal for a third package of proposals, intending to bring more effective competition and better security of supply ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Technological Change and Mature Industrial Regions
Edited by Mahtab A. Farshchi, Odile E.M. Janne, Philip McCann
‘This book provides a comprehensive analysis of one of the major problems of our rapidly changing world: how is it that some cities and regions move from prosperity to economic decline and why is that some regions restructure quicker tha... -
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Cluster Policies in Europe
Susana Borrás, Dimitrios Tsagdis
‘In the era of globalization, governance has become multi-level, from supra-national bodies down to local organizations. This important book suggests that to promote cluster development effectively, multi-level governance often requires ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Measuring and Improving Productivity in Services
Faridah Djellal, Faïz Gallouj
The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Dynamics of Standards
Edited by Tineke M. Egyedi, Knut Blind
‘The economics of standards has grown from being a rather arcane speciality into a major issue in industrial economics, strategy and technology policy. This collection of empirical papers is edited by two researchers that have made impor...