Changes in Innovation: Towards an Improved Understanding of Economic Renewal - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 023057744X ISBN 13: 9780230577442

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Riassunto

This book is a collection of articles all contributing to the theme of changes in innovation and innovation processes, and aims to create new knowledge about crucial issues in the Finnish and global innovation environment which forms critical intelligence in innovation strategis for firms and decision makers.

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JANI SAARINEN works as innovation and technology policy manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Trained in both research policy and economic history, Saarinen studies innovation at the intersection of science, technology, and industry. His work includes extensive studies of industrial research and development, commercialisation- and business-models of innovations, the development of manufacturing technology in the Finland, and studies related to innovation and technology policies. In addition, he has expertise in topics like innovation activities and technological evolution of firms and industries, long-term changes in the nature of R&D-activities of firms and research centres, and also various issues related to patents and human capital.

NINA RILLA works as a research scientist at VTT within the team Innovation and Industrial Renewal. Her research interest lay in the field of industrial innovation, as well as on internationalisation of companies and their innovation activities, and R&D in general. She has been focusing on investigating the changes in the innovation process, particularly from an innovation networks and innovation failures perspective.

JUHA OKSANEN is a research scientist and the team leader of the VTT 'Innovation Policy Research and Impact Assessment of R&D' unit PEKKA PESONEN is a research scientist at VTT within the 'Innovation and Industrial Renewal' research team. His research interests pertain to various aspects of the innovations themselves, and to the link between innovation, technological development, and the competitiveness of firms and industries. His research has been mainly focusing on innovation in and dynamics of forest sector, and on innovation management issues, as well as managing SFINNO, the Finnish innovation-based database ROBERT VAN DER HAVE is employed a as research scientist at VTT within the team 'Innovation and Industrial Renewal'. His expertise mainly lay in economic-geography issues such as agglomeration externalities, industry clusters, and the measurement and analysis of spatial phenomena, especially innovative activity. His research interests include inter-organizational knowledge creation in innovation, spatial evolution of industry and innovative activity, the interplay of regional environments and organizational dynamics, dynamics of entrepreneurship, as well innovation in services

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 023057744X
• ISBN 13: 9780230577442
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 241
• Redattore: Saarinen Jani, Rilla Nina
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