This series presents high quality research monographs and collections written from a variety of perspectives and at different levels of analysis. The study of global competition is increasingly at the centre of an academic crossroads at which different research programmes and levels of investigation are now meeting, bringing together researchers working in areas such as international business, technological change, geographical and locational analysis and European integration.
By Roel Rutten
May 21, 2015
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....
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By Thierry Burger-Helmchen
May 21, 2015
Understanding the economic implication of creative individuals and firms is at the heart of the new economy and of related fields such as the economics of knowledge, the economics of science and innovation management. This book brings together a panel of theoretical and empirical contributions ...
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By Francesco Crespi, Francesco Quatraro
May 12, 2015
There is wide consensus on the importance of knowledge for economic growth and local development patterns. This book proposes a view of knowledge as a collective, systemic and evolutionary process that enables agents and social systems to overcome the challenges of the limits to growth. It brings ...
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By Jesús M. Valdaliso, James R. Wilson
April 13, 2015
This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and implementing a territorial strategy for economic development and competitiveness. There is a widespread recognition that territories need to construct ...
By Anna Grandori
February 27, 2015
This book proposes a new approach to economics, management and organization that should help in making economic organization ‘wise’, ‘innovative’ and ‘robust’ in an uncertain and risky world. Although the modern economy and society is ‘knowledge intensive’, Anna Grandori argues that the dominant ...
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By Piergiuseppe Morone
February 27, 2015
As firms increasingly rely on knowledge as a key factor for innovation, the ability to innovate is increasingly perceived as a key asset for being competitive in international markets. This new volume argues that innovation, knowledge and internationalisation should be viewed as tightly related ...
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By Roberta Capello, Agnieszka Olechnicka, Grzegorz Gorzelak
February 27, 2015
Regions and cities are the natural loci where knowledge is created, and where it can be easily turned into a commercial product. Regions are territories where, under certain socio-economic conditions, a strong sense of belonging and mutual trust develops the ability to transform information and ...
By Marco Vivarelli
February 05, 2015
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 ...
By Maria Bengtsson
December 22, 2014
Climates of Competition studies the innovations and manoeuvres of geographically proximate competitors to further understand the nature and dynamics of competition.Through case-studies of manufacturers competing for shares in three industrial markets - agricultural machinery, processing equipment ...
By Nigel Driffield
December 01, 2014
This study combines an industry level and a firm level analysis on the wage and employment effects of multinational companies. This has not been attempted in any previous work. In view of the results, important questions are raised regarding how global changes in the structure of production may ...
By Tommaso Perez
December 01, 2014
An analysis of the impact of inward investment on the competitiveness of indigenous firms, Multinational Enterprises and Technological Spillovers draws on evidence from the UK and Italian manufacturing sectors to show how foreign presence may generate both virtuous and vicious circles of ...
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By Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson, Roger Stough
November 10, 2014
In the last four decades the developed economies have developed into veritable knowledge economies at the same time as more and more economies have entered the road to economic development. Typical for the developments during this time has been substantially increased investments in research and ...