Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics write by Karima Kourtit. This book was released on 2011-06-10. Drivers of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Regional Dynamics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The need for informed and effective insights into key concepts and models of regional development and growth, from an endogenous growth perspective, has risen over the past decade. These recent advances address in particular local and regional assets and characteristics comprising inter alia creativity, knowledge, innovation forces and entrepreneurship. Access to and exploitation of these modern forms of human and social capital are of paramount importance for the dynamic regional economic environment in a city or region. This volume offers an overview and critical treatment of the spatial-economic roots, opportunities and impacts of new growth strategies, mainly from an evidence-based perspective. In the various contributions to this volume, relevant findings and strategic options are interpreted and discussed from both an analytical and a policy perspective to help cultivate creativity, human capital development and innovation as well as entrepreneurial activity, with a view to exploit the drivers of economic development, in order to strengthen the competitive edge of cities and regions.
Innovation Drivers and Regional Innovation Strategies
Innovation Drivers and Regional Innovation Strategies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innovation Drivers and Regional Innovation Strategies write by M. Davide Parrilli. This book was released on 2016-02-05. Innovation Drivers and Regional Innovation Strategies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the global economy, regional development and innovation are increasingly an imperative to increase the competitive edge of EU economies. While European regions are different in many ways, the innovation capacity of regions, clusters and firms is what makes them capable of building up new and diversified pathways for sustainable growth. For this reason, Innovation Drivers and Regional Innovation Strategies looks to analyze different knowledge drivers (e.g. entrepreneurial or policy-orientation; scientific and practice-based knowledge modes; institutional innovation support) that influence the innovative and competitive capacity of regions, clusters and firms in Europe. The aim of this volume is to develop an in-depth understanding of these drivers and their implications for the way in which regional and cluster growth may be upgraded. Innovation Drivers and Regional Innovation Strategies examines the construction of new innovation pathways for regions and clusters in different geographical contexts. The main themes are cluster evolution, regional innovation systems and business innovation modes and capabilities. The objectives are centred on exploring the logic and mechanisms that can be activated as a means to promote innovation and competitiveness within regions and, within these, across and within firms. Aimed at researchers and academics in the field, this is a thoughtful and innovative new volume that helps define the academic debate.
Enacting Regional Dynamics and Entrepreneurship
Enacting Regional Dynamics and Entrepreneurship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enacting Regional Dynamics and Entrepreneurship write by Bengt Johannisson. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Enacting Regional Dynamics and Entrepreneurship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In present digital times the focus is on globalization and the dynamics and complexities that it creates. However, in spite of being dominated by technology the world remains populated by human beings practising a localized everyday life. This contrast should challenge every researcher who is concerned with business and societal development and how that is contingent upon the institutional and cultural (national) context. In this book, Swedish researchers reflect upon entrepreneurship as a possible mediator between local and global economic and social concerns. Using as a point of departure the tensions between a functional, footloose rationale and a territorial rationale tied to place, the authors provide different aspects on regional development in a globalised world. A shared concern is the importance of recognizing the many appearances of entrepreneurship that brings it beyond being an innovative force in the market. The book thus presents different strategies and tactics for pursuing localized economic development and it also critically reviews adopted public support programmes and measures of the (local) business climate. The conclusive message is that only by bridging the functional and territorial views will it be possible to sustain, and possibly enhance, economic and social life in local places as well as in our shared world. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.
Innovation in SMEs and Micro Firms
Innovation in SMEs and Micro Firms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innovation in SMEs and Micro Firms write by Manuel Fernández-Esquinas. This book was released on 2018-12-07. Innovation in SMEs and Micro Firms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the role of culture in the innovation dynamic of small firms within the context of their territorial environments? How do shared values, beliefs and practices underpin the knowledge production process that leads to innovation? In what way do symbolic aspects of social life shape European SMEs’ innovation processes? This volume gives an extensive insight into the complex links between culture and innovation in one of the key agents of economic life: SMEs and micro firms. The chapters employ different analytical and methodological strategies in regions of Europe to identify dimensions of culture, especially values, norms, skills and institutions, and to scrutinize which specific components of culture are relevant to firm innovation and to the more general dynamics of regional innovation. The original research presented shows how small firms learn, interact, compete and collaborate with other key agents of the innovation system. Taken as a whole, the volume points the way towards a more comprehensive framework for understanding the nature of innovation in SMEs and micro firms. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Inequality
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Inequality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Inequality write by Vanessa Ratten. This book was released on 2019-08-30. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Inequality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book hopes to stimulate discussion about how entrepreneurship and innovation contribute to growing inequalities in territories. This will help bridge the gap between research and practice on the role of territory dynamics and regional development. The book begins by examining the growing inequality in regions, which has resulted in lagging economic development. The need to shift current economic policy towards spatial inequality through harnessing the innovative capabilities of regions is examined. The book puts forth a case for reversing the inequality that is evident in lagging regions as a way to reinvigorate territories. The book should appeal to researchers, policy makers, business leaders and the general public interested in territorial dynamics and development.
