Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters Findings and Insights from the US, EU and Japan

by Carayannis, Elias G.; Assimakopoulos, Dimitris; Kondo, Masayuki

• ISBN13: 9781403942456
• ISBN10: 1403942455
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book focuses on profiling, analysing, benchmarking and modelling in socio-economic terms, the ways that creativity, invention and innovation flourish. The work is based on comparative, conceptual and empirical research of 15 American, European and Asian knowledge-based innovation networks and knowledge clusters. It highlights critical success and failure factors, and the lessons learned about entrepreneurial initiatives, outcomes and impacts. It identifies and articulates insights that inform both public sector policies and private sector practices to render them more effective and efficient.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xii
Preface	p. xv
The Role of the Firm in Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters	p. 1
Measuring Firm Innovative Performance: A Review of the Literature and Empirical Exploration	p. 21
Academic Entrepreneurship - Roles and Relations in the Venture Creation Process	p. 54
Buyer Discourse Perspective on Market Entry: Co-Evolutionary Dynamics of Opinions and Entrepreneurial Action	p. 77
Asymmetric Knowledge, Digital Knowledge Flow Platforms and Regional Innovation Systems	p. 89
Big Science as a Catalyst of New Business Development	p. 110
Knowledge-Based Geospatial Information System (KB-GIS) and the Informational Space Economy	p. 133
From Regional Innovation Strategies to the Multi-Level Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation: the Case of the NorthEast of England	p. 166
Information Flow and Global Competitiveness of Industrial Districts: Lessons Learned from Kastoria's Fur District in Greece	p. 186
The Role of Clusters and Regional Networks in Economic Transformation - Empirical Evidence and Conclusions from the East German Innovation System	p. 210
Weak Ties and Innovation among Indian and Chinese Engineers in Silicon Valley	p. 230
K-Cores, Team Dynamics and Intra-Organizational Development in an Aerospace Firm	p. 284
Venturing Clusters: the Case of Sapporo Region to Create Biotech University Spin-Offs	p. 299
The Role of the Government and the Academia-Industry Network in the Biopharmaceutical Industry of China	p. 314
From Bureaucratic Mode of Technological Entrepreneurship to Clustering Mode of Technological Entrepreneurship: Daedeok Science Park, Korea	p. 330
Innovation Symbiosis among Geographical Knowledge Networks: the Case of the Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park, Taiwan (1991-2002)	p. 343
To Cluster or Not to Cluster? The Growth of High-Tech Firms in New Zealand	p. 361
Biographies	p. 384
Index	p. 401
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