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.
Multinational Corporations and European Regional Systems of Innovation
1st Edition
By John Cantwell, Simona Iammarino
April 30, 2012
In globalising economies, particularly those going through a process of economic integration such as those economies within the EU, regions forge an increasing number of linkages with other locations within and across national borders. This is largely carried out by the technological efforts of ...
Creativity, Innovation and the Cultural Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Andy C. Pratt, Paul Jeffcutt
August 16, 2011
This collection brings together international experts from different continents to examine creativity and innovation in the cultural economy. In doing so, the collection provides a unique contemporary resource for researchers and advanced students. As a whole, the collection addresses creativity ...
Coopetition Strategy: Theory, experiments and cases
1st Edition
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By Giovanni B. Dagnino, Elena Rocco
August 15, 2011
This innovative book portrays the state-of-the-art of coopetition strategy regarded as a compelling mindset to exploit entirely the potential of actors’ interdependencies (firms, governments, suppliers, customers, scientists and partners) in today’s global scenarios. It provides the rudiments for ...
Risk Appraisal and Venture Capital in High Technology New Ventures
1st Edition
By Gavin C. Reid, Julia A. Smith
September 10, 2010
This book is a 'crossover' treatment of quantitative and qualitative risk analysis within the setting of new high technology ventures in the UK. Reid and Smith have based their research on extensive fieldwork in patent-intensive, high-technology firms. This has included face-to-face interviews with...
Changes in Regional Firm Founding Activities: A Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Evidence
1st Edition
By Dirk Fornahl
December 08, 2009
Part of the highly successful Studies in Global Competition series and written by an author based at the Max Planck Institute in Germany – one of the world’s leading centres of evolutionary economics, this book looks at the medium to long term development of firm founding activity. Developing a ...
Competing for Knowledge: Creating, Connecting, and Growing
1st Edition
By Robert A Huggins, Hiro Izushi
November 24, 2009
Focusing on the dynamics of the knowledge economy, this volume provides an overview of the knowledge creation capabilities of economies, an examination of their growth performance and a detailed analysis of how the creation and connection of knowledge is becoming the key means of growing ...
Corporate Governance, Finance and the Technological Advantage of Nations
1st Edition
By Andrew Tylecote, Francesca Visintin
November 24, 2009
There is much debate regarding which countries’ economies have the best economic systems to encourage economic growth and technological change. This book is a major contribution to this discussion, connecting the fields of corporate governance and finance with the field of innovation and technology...
Knowledge Economies: Organization, location and innovation
1st Edition
By Wilfred Dolfsma
November 24, 2009
This book makes a strong and coherent contribution to the discussion of the knowledge economy and of innovation, offering a range of theoretical insights from different disciplinary perspectives. The role of knowledge, knowledge development, and knowledge diffusion is discussed at the micro level ...
Economics of the Firm: Analysis, Evolution and History
1st Edition
By Michael Dietrich
June 22, 2009
This book brings together some of the world's leading experts to present an interdisciplinary, critical perspective on current issues surrounding the economics of the firms. It eschews standard approaches to the economics of the firm (including analysis of transaction costs) in favour of a more ...
Entrepreneurship and Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy
1st Edition
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By Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson, Roger Stough
March 18, 2009
The phenomenon of entrepreneurship has attracted researchers from a variety of disciplines and a diverse number of analytical approaches. Currently, there is a considerable amount of confusion and a variety of conflicting theories which are being used interchangeably and ambiguously. In...
Innovation, Technology and Hypercompetition: Review and Synthesis
1st Edition
By Hans-Werner Gottinger
January 30, 2009
In an increasingly technologically-led century the striking pattern emerging in firms’ innovative activities is their competition for a technological leadership position in situations best described as races. A 'race' is an interactive pattern characterized by firms constantly trying to get ahead ...
Competitiveness of New Industries: Institutional Framework and Learning in Information Technology in Japan, the U.S and Germany
1st Edition
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By Cornelia Storz, Andreas Moerke
January 10, 2009
Many recent books on information and communication technologies concentrate on individual country experiences or neglect to analyze political factors in conjunction with entrepreneurial ones. This book, the result of an international research project, comprises a comprehensive comparison of three ...