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Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship lies at the core of the
structural shift necessary for the growth and development of a
knowledge based economy, yet research reveals that the EU has fewer
young leading innovators, and Europe's new firms do not adequately
contribute to industrial growth. This is especially true in the
high R&D intensive, high-tech sectors. This structural malaise,
undermining Europe's growth potential, is well diagnosed, but
poorly understood. This volume fills this important gap by
exploring new firms that have significant knowledge intensity in
their activity and develop and exploit innovative opportunities in
diverse sectors. Through an evolutionary and systemic approach to
entrepreneurship, focusing on knowledge intensive entrepreneurship
as both a micro and a macro phenomena and analyzing firms in the
context of various socio-economic models, the authors explore firms
creation and origins around the world, their organization,
strategies and business models as well as the role of innovation
systems and institutions in their formation and growth. This
comprehensive research text is vital reading for academics,
researchers and students of high-tech and knowledge intensive
entrepreneurship as well as those with an interest in industrial
dynamics, innovation management and public policy.
The last twenty years have witnessed a tremendous increase in
industrial collaboration in research and development (R&D) both
in Europe and the world at large. Firms have increasingly opted for
collaboration in an effort to deal with the uncertainties that stem
from rising research costs, rapid technological change and the
development of a network economy. Governments have been quick to
support this trend in order to promote competitiveness and, in the
European context, to foster cohesion. The contributions collected
in this volume focus explicitly on cooperative R&D in Europe.
The first part of the book offers empirical evidence on the extent,
scope and direction of this collaboration and explores the motives
and problems of the participating firms, as well as the perceived
benefits they have enjoyed. The second part deals with the
difficult policy issues that diverse national R&D regimes
create for successful cooperative research and international
convergence. The extensive survey results of European firms allow
the authors to compare collaborative research policies in various
EU countries and contrast the policy design that has emerged in the
EU with that of the USA. This book offers the most comprehensive
account of collaborative industrial research in Europe and explores
both the business strategies that have motivated it and the public
policies that have promoted it. Academics, graduate students,
government agencies and European institutions involved in science
and technology policy and R&D management will find this volume
to be invaluable. It will also be of great practical use to
companies interested in forming strategic technical alliances.
The channels and mechanisms of knowledge flows define the links
that make up production and innovation systems. As such, they
relate directly or indirectly to all policies that affect such
systems. Knowledge flows are also directly related to intellectual
property protection policies and competition policies that create
the infrastructure supporting various forms of formal interaction
among economic agents in production and innovation systems.
Knowledge Flows in European Industry presents the results of an
extensive research programme funded by the European Commission to
empirically appraise the dissemination of knowledge relevant to the
innovative activities of European manufacturing and service
sectors. It explores the extent, density, and mechanism of
innovation-related knowledge flows affecting the innovative
capacity of European industry and the mechanisms that support such
flows, as well as examining incentives to access and transmit
results and the determinants of knowledge transmission. Featuring
contributions from leading international scholars including Anthony
Arundel and Bent Dalum, this interdisciplinary volume focuses on
questions of interest to regional, national, and pan-European
science, technology and innovation policy, and will be an important
read for those involved in business and management as well as those
in the field of economics.
The channels and mechanisms of knowledge flows define the links
that make up production and innovation systems. As such, they
relate directly or indirectly to all policies that affect such
systems. Knowledge flows are also directly related to intellectual
property protection policies and competition policies that create
the infrastructure supporting various forms of formal interaction
among economic agents in production and innovation systems.
Knowledge Flows in European Industry presents the results of an
extensive research programme funded by the European Commission to
empirically appraise the dissemination of knowledge relevant to the
innovative activities of European manufacturing and service
sectors. It explores the extent, density, and mechanism of
innovation-related knowledge flows affecting the innovative
capacity of European industry and the mechanisms that support such
flows, as well as examining incentives to access and transmit
results and the determinants of knowledge transmission. Featuring
contributions from leading international scholars including Anthony
Arundel and Bent Dalum, this interdisciplinary volume focuses on
questions of interest to regional, national, and pan-European
science, technology and innovation policy, and will be an important
read for those involved in business and management as well as those
in the field of economics.
Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship lies at the core of the
structural shift necessary for the growth and development of a
knowledge based economy, yet research reveals that the EU has fewer
young leading innovators, and Europe's new firms do not adequately
contribute to industrial growth. This is especially true in the
high R&D intensive, high-tech sectors. This structural malaise,
undermining Europe's growth potential, is well diagnosed, but
poorly understood. This volume fills this important gap by
exploring new firms that have significant knowledge intensity in
their activity and develop and exploit innovative opportunities in
diverse sectors. Through an evolutionary and systemic approach to
entrepreneurship, focusing on knowledge intensive entrepreneurship
as both a micro and a macro phenomena and analyzing firms in the
context of various socio-economic models, the authors explore firms
creation and origins around the world, their organization,
strategies and business models as well as the role of innovation
systems and institutions in their formation and growth. This
comprehensive research text is vital reading for academics,
researchers and students of high-tech and knowledge intensive
entrepreneurship as well as those with an interest in industrial
dynamics, innovation management and public policy.
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