Innovation and entrepreneurial networks in Europe

Analyzes innovation in entrepreneurship networks from a European perspective. This book combines themes of entrepreneurship, innovation and networks with a specifically European focus, highlighting the wide variations at the national, regional and business level

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fernandez Perez, Paloma , 1964- (Author), Rose, Mary B. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge , c2010
Series:Routledge international studies in business history 18
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: innovation and entrepreneurial network in Europe
  • 2. Networks in economic and business history: a theoretical perspective
  • 3. Innovation, entrepreneurship and networks: a dance of two questions
  • 4. Management consultancies and organizational innovation in Europe
  • 5. Uncovering the bottom of the iceberg: innovation and large family firms in Spanish metal manufacturing
  • 6. Patterns of innovation, strategies and structures in the Italian Chemical Industry, 1973-2003
  • 7. Competitive behavior and business innovations in the forestry industry: family firms and listed firms in comparison
  • 8. Network, cartels and innovations in Finland, 1945-1984
  • 9. Network of opportunity and the Spanish pharmaceutical industry
  • 10. Knowledge circulation in innovation networks in the twentieth century: its importance for innovations in small and large companies in the Netherlands