Innovation Policy
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The Theory and Practice of Innovation Policy
Edited by Ruud E. Smits, Stefan Kuhlmann, Phillip Shapira
This comprehensive Handbook explores the interactions between the practice, policy, and theory of innovation. The goal is twofold: to increase insight into this dynamic process, searching for options to improve the effectiveness and effi... -
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Building National and Regional Innovation Systems
Jorge Niosi
Following the demise of the Washington Consensus, developing countries are looking for new ideas to guide their development. This innovative book suggests taking seriously some of the findings of evolutionary economics and paying specifi...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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The Sociology of Scientific Work
Dominique Vinck
More than ever before, science and technology play a significant role in modern society as evidenced by the development of nanotechnologies and the controversies surrounding GMOs and climate change. This book comprehensively explores the...eBook:Find out more$51.96
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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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The Handbook of Innovation and Services
Edited by Faïz Gallouj, Faridah Djellal
This Handbook brings together 49 international specialists to address an issue of increasing importance for the world’s post-industrial economies; innovation as it relates to services.eBook:Find out more$81.56
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Handbook of Innovation Systems and Developing Countries
Edited by Bengt-Åke Lundvall, K. J. Joseph, Cristina Chaminade, Jan Vang
This Handbook is the first attempt to adapt the IS approach to developing countries from a theoretical and empirical viewpoint. The Handbook brings eminent scholars in economics, innovation and development studies together with promisi...eBook:Find out more$64.76
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European Science and Technology Policy
Edited by Henri Delanghe, Ugur Muldur, Luc Soete
This innovative book focuses on the most important concept underpinning current European Union research policy. It describes the history and concept of the European Research Area (ERA), analyses some of the underlying assumptions, assess...eBook:Find out more$64.76
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Creating Wealth from Knowledge
Edited by John Bessant, Tim Venables
This book illustrates that, although innovation has always mattered in economic development, simply increasing expenditure in creating knowledge may not be the answer: we need to look at the whole system through which such knowledge tran...eBook:Find out more$66.36
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The Handbook of Technology Foresight
Edited by Luke Georghiou, Jennifer Cassingena Harper, Michael Keenan, Ian Miles, Rafael Popper
In this comprehensive and critical Handbook, cross-cutting analytical chapters explore the emergence and positioning of foresight, common approaches and methods, organisational issues, and the scope for policy transfer and evaluation. Le...eBook:Find out more$80.76
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Small Country Innovation Systems
Edited by Charles Edquist, Leif Hommen
This major book presents case studies of ten small country national systems of innovation (NSIs) in Europe and Asia, namely, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden and Taiwan. These ...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Public or Private Economies of Knowledge?
Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin
This book presents an analytical framework for understanding the shifting ‘great divide’ in capitalist economies of knowledge. The authors develop a novel economic sociology of innovation, based on the ‘instituted economic process’ app...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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The Technology Imperative
Gregory Tassey
The convergence of technology-based competitive capabilities among the world’s economies has drastically altered the required economic growth strategies in industrialized nations. Based on a variety of corporate and government investment...