This is the first book on a new policy approach that has been widely adopted in Europe and
beyond. It analyses the concept of smart specialisation and discuss the need for smart …

Organizational learning (OL) enables organizations to transform individual knowledge into
organizational knowledge. Organizations struggle to implement practical approaches due to …

There is a growing interest in ecosystems as an approach for understanding the context of
entrepreneurship at the macro level of an organizational community. It consists of all the …

In recent years the fields of entrepreneurship studies, economic geography, urban
economics, and the economics of entrepreneurship have moved closer to each other …

The process of user-centered innovation: how it can benefit both users and manufacturers
and how its emergence will bring changes in business models and in public policy …

Theories in the social sciences may be regarded as 'focusing devices'. Any specific theory
brings forward and exposes some aspects of the real world, leaving others in obscurity. That …

This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life.
Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions …

The authors have worked on innovation systems for more than a decade. This paper is an
attempt to take stock. In Section 2, we reflect upon the emergence and fairly rapid diffusion of …

In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two
increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms …

Innovation and technological change show different rates, types and trajectories depending
on the sector in which they take place. Agents and institutions of a sector all exert a major …