Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy, 9781783477319
Hardcover
They demonstrate that location matters for creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, and clarify that public policy in a globalized economy must stress knowledge and ideas as the source of competitiveness and economic growth.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy

knowledge, technology and internationalization

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  • Hardcover

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    26 June 2015

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Summary

We have, in recent decades, been able to witness a veritable revolution in the world economy, known as ‘globalization’. Generally, the term is connected to the rapid increase of the free movement of goods, capital, people, ideas, information and knowledge around the globe. This book contributes to the meso- and micro-economic literature on innovation and entrepreneurship in the global economy.

Extending our understanding of the many different ways that innovation and entrepreneurship contri…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781783477319
ISBN-10:1783477318
Author:Charlie Karlsson, Urban Gråsjö, Sofia Wixe
Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:26 June 2015
Weight:666g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm
Series:New Horizons in Regional Science series
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Critics Review

‘I would encourage all researchers interested in entrepreneurship and innovation to read this volume. It provides a new conceptual approach to the link between global economic trends and entrepreneurship, through the role of local space as an important source for innovation. Readers can find old and new issues on the formation of entrepreneurship elegantly linked together, so as to provide new insights into this important field of research.’ - Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

About The Author

Charlie Karlsson

Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Professor Emeritus of the Economics of Technological Change, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University and Professor Emeritus of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Urban Gråsjö, PhD, School of Business, Economics and IT, University West and Sofia Wixe, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE), Jönköping International Business School, Sweden

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