innovation / Alina Lidén -- Innovation, productivity and export : evidence from Italy / Roberto Antonietti and Giulio Cainelli … -- Profiting from the breakthrough : technology commercialisation in the global age / Samantha Sharpe -- Innovation and regional … integration and network structure : modelling innovation activity / Piergiuseppe Morone and Richard Taylor -- Proximity …

This volume provides an understanding of firms' R&D and innovation strategies and their economy-wide consequences. It … heterogeneous ways in which firms organize and undertake R&D and innovation activities. It emphasizes innovation strategies of … innovating firms, and reflects that innovation efforts do not represent a uniform type of expenditure. Organized into three parts …

knowledge around the globe. This book contributes to the meso- and micro-economic literature on innovation and entrepreneurship … in the global economy. Extending our understanding of the many different ways that innovation and entrepreneurship … entrepreneurs. They demonstrate that location matters for creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, and clarify that public …