The benefits of the availability and use of medical equipment for medical outcomes are understood by physicians and policymakers alike. However, there is limited understanding of the decision-making processes involved in adopting and using new technologies in health care organisations. Our study...

1. Setting the scene -- 2. A world of enterprise -- 3. Enterprising nations -- 4. Who are the entrepreneurs? -- 5. The start-up decision -- 6. Understanding business success : strategy, luck and policy -- 7. Financing entrepreneurship -- 8. Small firms and innovation -- 9. Antisocial, unlawful...

The innovation value chain (IVC) divides the innovation process into three separate links or activities: knowledge gathering, knowledge transformation and knowledge exploitation. Here, we report a comparative panel data analysis of the IVC in Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small,...