Economic spionage and industrial spying

Economic systems of foraging, agricultural, and industrial societies

Las azucareras

la revolución industrial en Aragón

The economics of Mobile Telecommunications

La luz y la sombra

la innovación en la empresa y sus formas de gestión

Natalidad industrial y redes de empresas en España

Ética en la industria farmacéutica

entre la economía y la salud

Innovación tecnológica, servicios a las empresas y desarrollo territorial

Nuevas estrategias para la competitividad de las empresas

GPI, SEIS SIGMA, 5S

Inversión extranjera directa y procesos de deslocalización

Cities and creative class

In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the "creative class"--the millions of people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent. Cities that ...

Shaping the Industrial Century

the remarkable story of the evolution of the modern chemical and pharmaceutical industries

Economics of industrial ecology

meterials, structural change, and spatial scales

The use of economic modeling techniques in industrial ecology research provides distinct advantages over the customary approach, which focuses on the physical description of material flows. The thirteen chapters of Economics of Industrial Ecology integrate the natural science and technological dimensions of industrial ecology with ...

Business clusters

an international perspective

Clusters of specialized businesses are being promoted around the world, aided by high-profile examples such as Silicon Valley. Using evidence from high and low income economies and detailed case-studies that show the special conditions behind successful clusters, this book is aimed at students of business ...

Transforming enterprise

the economic and social implications of information technology

Innovators across all sectors of society are using information and communication technology to reshape economic and social activity. Even after the boom -- and despite the bust -- the process of structural change continues across organizational boundaries. Transforming Enterprise considers the implications of this change from a ...

Technological economy

In this major new collection, leading experts explore the multidisciplinary connections between technology and economy, drawing on new convergences between economic sociology and science and technology studies. Through theoretical and empirical studies, the authors investigate: * economics and economic knowledges as technologies * the economies as socio-technical ...

Rethinking regional innovation and change

path dependency or regional breakthrough

Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence: Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective.- Tacit knowledge, path dependency and local trajectories of growth.- Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium: New knowledge economies and their discontents.- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization?- Knowledge- intensive services as ...

E-Merging media

communication and the media economy of the future

After the very successful ECC-Book on "E-conomy" this new report of the European Communication Council (ECC) analyzes from various perspectives the profound societal and economical change of the media economy, initiated by digitalization and networking. Against the background of the current media history, it highlights ...

Los servicios avanzados a las empresas

dinámicas de localización, patrones de 'externalización' y efectos sobre el desarrollo regional

Uno de los rasgos que caracteriza a las modernas economías es el rápido desarrollo de los servicios avanzados a las empresas.Las actividades vinculadas a la consultoría, la informática, la ingeniería o los recursos humanos, entre otras, se han convertido en un elemento clave para ...

Creative industries

Bringing together seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts, Creative Industries chronicles the way mass culture is produced, packaged and circulated in a technology-enabled and globalized world. The volume samples the subjects that have come to define the creative ...