Routledge Studies in Global Competition
About the Book Series
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.
Embedded Entrepreneurship: The Institutional Dynamics of Innovation
1st Edition
By Alexander Ebner
December 31, 2025
In this book, Alexander Ebner reconstructs the theory of entrepreneurship from an institutionalist perspective. It provides a fresh account of current theorising on entrepreneurship, specifically addressing Schumpeterian thought as well as Neo-Austrian, Neo-Schumpeterian and evolutionary approaches...
The Evolving Firm in the Evolving Context: Coordinating Competences
1st Edition
By Päivi Oinas
December 31, 2025
This volume offers a broad social scientific view of 'the firm'. Regarded as an agent of change in society, the firm is as fully conditioned by the environment in which it operates. This requires that actors participating in the evolution of firms are involved in an ongoing coordination process. ...
Strategies for Shaping Territorial Competitiveness
1st Edition
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By Jesús M. Valdaliso, James R. Wilson
September 30, 2020
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 ...
The Economics of Knowledge, Innovation and Systemic Technology Policy
1st Edition
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By Francesco Crespi, Francesco Quatraro
September 30, 2020
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 ...
The Global Management of Creativity
1st Edition
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By Marcus Wagner, Jaume Valls-Pasola, Thierry Burger-Helmchen
September 30, 2020
In the past, ‘Global Management’ meant optimizing production and commercialization activities around the world in an international business context. With the emergence and rise of the creative economy, the global game has changed. This book is about the global management of creativity and related ...
Catching Up and Leapfrogging: The new latecomers in the integrated circuits industry
1st Edition
By Xiao-Shan Yap, Rajah Rasiah
December 12, 2019
Ever since Schumpeter’s groundbreaking work there has been a plethora of new research seeking to extend the direction and dynamics of innovation. Using a rich account of detailed interviews, this book offers new evidence on how latecomers have successfully caught up and leapfrogged incumbent firms....
Innovation, Alliances, and Networks in High-Tech Environments
1st Edition
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By Fiorenza Belussi, Luigi Orsi
December 12, 2019
Recent years have seen a growth in strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions and collaborative networks involving knowledge-intensive and hi-tech industries. However, there have been relatively few studies looking at this form of collaboration as a strategy to drive firms’ innovative ...
Local Clusters in Global Value Chains: Linking Actors and Territories Through Manufacturing and Innovation
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By Valentina De Marchi, Eleonora Di Maria, Gary Gereffi
December 12, 2019
The international fragmentation of economic activities – from research and design to production and marketing – described through the lens of the global value chain (GVC) approach impacts the structure and performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) agglomerated in economic clusters. ...
University Technology Transfer: The globalization of academic innovation
1st Edition
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By Shiri M. Breznitz, Henry Etzkowitz
December 12, 2019
Universities have become essential players in the generation of knowledge and innovation. Through the commercialization of technology, they have developed the ability to influence regional economic growth. By examining different commercialization models this book analyses technology transfer at ...
The Economics of Structural Change in Knowledge
1st Edition
By Francesco Quatraro
December 08, 2016
This book provides an elaboration upon the concept of knowledge from an economic viewpoint. However this is not a book on economics of knowledge, at least not in the conventional sense. Most of the existing books on the matter have focused on the treatment of knowledge in terms of properties of ...
Technological Innovations, Multinational Corporations and the New International Competitiveness: The Case of Intermediate Countries
1st Edition
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By Jos Molero
August 26, 2016
The aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of those intermediate countries with specific reference to two relevant international areas; those countries of southern Europe whose dynamic is very much influenced by the phases of European construction, and in countries of Latin ...
Social Networks, Innovation and the Knowledge Economy
1st Edition
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By Isabel Salavisa, Margarida Fontes
August 03, 2016
In this book, the authors illustrate how social networks can play a very significant role in the technological catch up process in moderate innovative countries. Using an innovative approach to the study of entrepreneurship in knowledge-intensive sectors, the book analyses the role of ...