Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: innovation beyond national systems fragility: institutional bricolage …. 'reassembling the social', in entrepreneurial innovation and academic entrepreneurship studies: the 'amphibious scientists …Europe needs more innovative companies that grow quickly and end up big. This book examines SME growth, innovation and …

Introduction / Eric Shiu -- 1. What is innovation? / Søren Harnow Klausen -- 2. Product design innovation - trade …-off decisions on functionality, aesthetics and sustainability from the consumer perspective / Eric Shiu -- 3. Innovation performance … -- 4. Organizing for creativity / Farida Rasulzada -- 5. Four decades of engaging customers in product innovation / Mai …

Contents: 1. The new frontier of innovation -- 2. Innovation pioneers - the essential role of users, on-line user … communities and the crowd -- 3. Exploring the changing landscape of Innovation: the rise of users, on-line communities and the … crowd -- 4. Mapping the new world of innovation - the innovation opportunity space -- 5. Defending territory - changing …

and consideration for innovation / Gina Scott Ligon and Douglas C. Derrick -- 11. Do leaders matter in the long run? A … innovation / Tamara L. Friedrich and Mingdong (Pauline) Zhong -- 15. All roads lead to Rome: navigating the creative process … a new premium on innovation for firms across the world. Although many variables influence creativity and innovation, the …

1. Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture, a matter of interaction between technology, progress and economic growth …? : an introduction -- 2. Conceptualizing innovation management and culture in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region … of hope? -- 7. Entrepreneurship and the design process : the paradox of innovation in a routine design process -- 8 …

Introduction / Gerald I. Susman -- Exploring the reach. of innovation-related cooperation in small firms / Mark Freel … -- Innovation, productivity, and growth : an analysis of Irish data / James H. Love, Stephen Roper -- Innovation strategies and … conceptual framework to describe network effectiveness / Irene J. Petrick, Carleen Maitland -- Sourcing of innovation as …

research and teaching synergies in innovation and enterprise -- 9. Action research for enterprise research. -- 10. Case … -- 12. Issues in cross-national comparisons applied to building theory on informal innovation in SMEs -- 13. Marketing …

Machine generated contents note: 1 Technology and entrepreneurship 1 -- 2 Knowledge, innovation and firm size 24 -- 3 … Local geographic spillovers 44 -- 4 Sectoral characteristics 63 -- 5 Innovation of entrepreneurial firms 74 -- 6 Capital … structure, innovation and firm size 98 -- 7 Employment growth in metropolitan areas 115 -- 8 Employment, wages and R …