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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Knowledge and innovation are key factors contributing to growth and
prosperity in the new service economy. This book presents original,
empirical and theoretical contributions to address the economic
dimensions of knowledge and the organisation of knowledge intensive
activity through specialised services. Specific analyses include: *
macro statistics to highlight the contribution of services to
economic activity * firm level survey data to identify and consider
client relations * case studies of four innovation-oriented
business services. Further chapters deal with the specific
functions connected with knowledge, the new discipline of
'knowledge management', intellectual property rights, and the role
of knowledge in national and international economic systems.
Offering an overview of a highly important and pervasive set of
phenomena, this book outlines and illustrates the intellectual
agenda associated with the rise of a global services economy. It
will appeal to industrial and business economists, researchers,
students, policymakers and business analysts.
The central theme of this book series is to explore the
contemporary perspectives on managing technological innovations and
related strategic policy issues. Specifically, this book series
open to all potential topics that need attention within the broad
theme of the management of technology and innovations, and promote
an interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on the management of
innovation and technological change in a global context from
strategic, managerial, behavioral, and policy perspectives. The
third volume of this book series concentrates on Technological
Innovation Networks: Collaboration and Partnership - a theme
resonating with scholars and practitioners that innovation requires
a network of partners to collaborate. Authors from around the world
contribute to this volume by approaching this theme from many
different perspectives: an institutional understanding of
international R&D networks, a stakeholder centrality potential
in innovation networks, the intersection between intellectual
structure and M & A, the rejections of the technological
opportunities due to lock?in, the policy?practice paradox of
technological innovations, Japan's national innovation strategy,
immigrant entrepreneurs in patents and performance, the impact of
university research parks on technology transfer, a historical
narrative of cotton technology in China, and the innovative online
or blended education in terms of motivation and reality. These
researches have made significant attempts to address the important
questions on how technological innovation touched on many aspects
of our networked social life, thus I hope readers who are
interested in learning the most contemporary perspectives on the
technological innovation will be impressed, enriched, and intrigued
by their analyses in each chapter. As the editor, I hope readers of
the volume could enjoy these chapters by its global nature, the
practicality orientation, the critical perspective, and the new
theories and practices embedded in the selected research.
In 1869 the late Richard Henry Dana, Jr., prepared a new edition of
his "Two Years Before the Mast''. In presenting the first 'author's
edition' to the public, he has been encouraged to add an account of
a visit to the old scenes, made twenty-four years after, together
with notices of the subsequent story and fate of the vessels, and
of some of the persons with whom the reader is made acquainted. The
popularity of this book has been so great and continued that it is
now proposed to make an illustrated edition with new material.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
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