The academic firm is a type of firm (firm-based organization or institution) that is being driven by focusing on encouraging, supporting, and advancing knowledge production (research, research and experimental development, R&D) and knowledge application (innovation). The academic firm interprets...

Preface -- Ch 1 Culture as a Driving Force of Individual and Organizational Behavior -- Ch 2 Creativity and Culture -- Ch 3 Wandering the World in Search of Creativity -- Ch 4 The Geography of the Creative Mind -- Ch 5 Group Creativity and Individual Creativity -- Ch 6 A Review on an Ancient...

Diverse and complex challenges in new venture formation demand rare and exceptional entrepreneurial acumen, particularly in technology-driven environments where disrupted markets amplify the factors and magnitude of uncertainty and risk. The successful technology entrepreneur (term of art for...

The key message of this book is that heterogeneity should be seen as an intrinsic and indispensable element of knowledge systems. The authors address the concept of heterogeneity in a multi-disciplinary fashion, including perspectives from evolutionary economics and innovation system studies,...