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In this book, the authors illustrate how social networks can play a very significant role in the technological catch up process in moderate innovative countries. Using an innovative approach to the study of entrepreneurship in knowledge-intensive sectors, the book analyses the role of social networks in the access and deployment of the variety of competences and resources required for the successful creation of knowledge-intensive companies, which has not yet been studied sufficiently in this context.

With contributions from an international array of experts, this book explains why biotechnology companies in different countries are concentrated in a small number of locations and what accounts for their success.

This work examines the evolution of Japanese direct investment in Europe and explores its determinants. It then illustrates how, as multinationals, Japanese firms adapt to local conditions and try to take advantage of a global organization.

This informative new book analyses the extent and major determinants of the east and west European industrial networks in reinforcing the competitive advantages of the EU and CEECs.

Examines the main dimensions of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship, the factors affecting its emergence, evolution and performance and the importance of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship for European growth and competitiveness.

Focuses on the topic of innovation, analysing it in complex social systems while making innovation understandable and tractable using tools such as computational network analysis and agent-based simulation.

Offers readers with insights into the theoretical foundations of targeting as well as empirical methods, and also approaches for using the community-level analysis to affect policy directions. This book includes papers that present issues surrounding community economic development and clusters in industry and rural communities.

The phenomenon of entrepreneurship has attracted researchers from a variety of disciplines and a diverse number of analytical approaches. This book provides an overview of the research in the field, and also summarizes the policy conclusions that can be drawn from such research.

This book focuses on three main areas, each of which is central to economic theorising: firms' organisation and behaviour, technological change and the process of globalisation. What this collection provides is a broad view of the three topics by concentrating on different aspects of each of them, and utilising different methods of investigation.

Addresses the question of the best possible uses of public funds and the most effective strategies for regional development, focusing on the development of human capital and the methodology of formulating regional policy.

Examines the theories of co-opetition and includes empirically based case studies. This book also offers experimental evidence from the laboratory. It is intended for those involved with strategic management.

Brings together international experts from different continents to examine creativity and innovation in the cultural economy. This collection provides a contemporary resource for researchers and advanced students.

Offers an analysis of how firms manage to reconfigure their pool of resources, to deal with the environments in which they are embedded, thus tackling the issue of how dynamic capabilities must be defined and conceptualized. This book observes formal and informal types of organization at different levels of analysis.

This collection of essays shows the high degree of complementarity between foreign direct investment and home export, challenging the long held fear that firms investing abroad leads to a loss of employment and decline in the home country.

China's immersion into the world trading system is the key development in international trade over the last few years. This intriguing book focuses on the attempts of European firms to crack this potentially huge market.