Purpose: The innovation creation literature primarily focuses on urban firms/regions or relies heavily on these data; less studied are rural firms and areas in this regard. The purpose of this paper is to employ a new firm-level data set, national in scale, and analyze characteristics that...

Recent developments in micro‐electronics, in particular Large‐Scale Integration (LSI) and the microprocessor, have already begun to have an important impact on the consumer product market. The first applications of micro‐electronic devices in products, calculators and digital watches,...

PROJECT: from the primary school pupil to the company chairman, we all have a feeling for what the word means. Indeed, many of us quite consciously organise aspects of our everyday lives on a project basis, whether it be organising for the annual holidays, or getting ready for Christmas....