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This timely book brings together cutting-edge research on the
important subject of science and innovation (S&I) policies. The
contributors - distinguished social science scholars - tackle the
key challenges of designing and implementing public policies in the
context of the new knowledge economy. They provide an extensive
overview of the most advanced methods for designing, monitoring,
and evaluating S&I policies, and analyze current applications
in a wide-ranging selection of fields along the innovation supply
chain, from legal and institutional landscapes to the industrial
sector. Topics discussed include technology transfer from higher
education institutions, innovation support at industry level,
measures sustaining venture capital, and firm internationalization
processes. Bridging policy research and policy making via
authoritative 'real-world' studies, this book will be warmly
welcomed by both academics and policy makers with an interest in
the design and implementation of public policies supporting
S&I. Contributors: C. Amorim Varum, C. Antonelli, F. Bertoni,
M.G. Colombo, A. Croce, C. Franzoni, A. Geuna, L. Grilli, A.
Hughes, P. Landoni, B. Lepori, B. Leten, B. Moore, S. Murtinu, L.
Piscitello, E. Reale, C. Rossi-Lamastra, S. Slipersaeter, T.
Ulrichsen, B. Van Looy
This book offers a distinctive analysis of the relations and
interplay between the internal activities of firms, their changing
boundaries, and increasing reliance on networks and alliances with
other firms. The contributors offer a blend of theoretical and
empirical studies; they are based on a set of related perspectives
in modern economics, including transaction cost economics,
competence and resource-based theories of the firm, evolutionary
economics and the theories of foreign direct investments and the
multinational enterprise. The unifying concern shared by the
different studies is the need to model firm behaviour and inter
firm cooperative activities in terms of knowledge growth and
competence building rather than merely in terms of cost-reduction;
they emphasize learning processes and dynamic efficiency rather
than efficient allocation of given resources.
Series Information: Routledge Studies in Organizations and Networks
This book addresses the organizational design of entrepreneurial
ventures. While many definitions of organizational design exist,
the authors consider it as consisting of two main dimensions - the
organizational structure of the firm and the human resource
management practices. The authors focus on entrepreneurial ventures
operating in high-tech industries because these firms have
characteristics that generate salient organizational challenges and
require appropriate design choices. First, high-tech
entrepreneurial ventures operate in high-velocity environments
where rapid changes require decision-makers to timely process a
large amount of information and cope with uncertainty. Moreover,
most high-tech entrepreneurial ventures are founded by teams of
high-skilled individuals, who, in turn, hire highly skilled
employees. The human capital of founders and key employees, as
reflected in their education and work experience, is the main
source of competitive advantage for these firms but creates major
organizational challenges. After the initial introduction, Section
2 illustrates the general contextual characteristics of high-tech
entrepreneurial ventures that pose organizational design challenges
different from those of both incumbent firms and low-tech ventures.
Next, the authors present the state of the art on the main
dimensions of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures' organizational
design. Section 3, in particular, focuses on the relevant elements
of organizational structure while in Section 4, the literature on
human resource management practices is reviewed. Section 5 moves
from the premise that high-tech entrepreneurial ventures are
heterogeneous across several dimensions and highlights prominent
factors that shape their organizational design. Section 6 concludes
by summarizing its main points and suggesting directions for future
research.
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