The purpose of this paper is to study the place of eco-innovation in industrial firms' current strategy and to understand how they achieve this change in their technological trajectory. This is mainly based on the interviews conducted between 2009 and 2011 within eight corporations settled in...

This book presents in its first part the financial determinants of innovation processes considered in a macro-economic perspective, which are limited by short-term constraints, and studies in its second part the linkages existing between the necessity to innovate in order to survive and the...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. From Term to Concept: the Entrepreneur and his Economic Function -- 1.1. Etymological and conceptual bases of the entrepreneur -- 1.2. The gradual recognition of the role of entrepreneurship -- 1.3. From a society of...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- General Introduction: Systemic Innovations and Transformation of Organizational Models -- Chapter 1 Enterprise Through the Lens of Agility, Creativity and Monitoring Method Combinations -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Agility and its manifesto --...