Indicator Systems for Sustainable Innovation

In the recent past, environmental innovations have led to a considerable reduction of many pollutants; however, further innovation is required to tackle remaining pollution sources. This work analyses the significance and the effects of framework conditions on innovation activities that contribute to the realisation of ...

Innovating strategy process

Innovating Strategy Process presents a series of reflective essays by established and emerging scholars on the subject of innovation, considering it both as an outcome of strategy and as a process in itself. The book has something to offer to a wide range of readers ...

Estrategia e innovación de la PYME industrial en España

La complejidad y dinamismo del entorno empresarial hace necesario un profundo conocimiento de las organizaciones y de cuáles son las variables o factores que pueden considerarse claves para su éxito competitivo. Cómo conseguir posicionarse de forma competitiva en un determinado mercado y qué hacer para ...

Industrial clusters and inter-firm networks

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of spatial industrial clusters and inter-firm networks. Given the prevailing political belief that clusters can be a major vehicle for economic development and growth, it is important to have a sound understanding of clusters and how they emerge, grow ...

Spillovers and innovations

space, environment, and the economy

Innovation processes and related spillovers are of eminent importance in a modern economy. How do they relate to spatial structures and environmental factors? The papers analyse innovation processes and spillovers in the economy from various angles, focussing mainly on regional and environmental aspects. Among others ...

Health policy and high-tech industrial development

Many countries and regions are actively promoting high technology industries as a means of stimulating the economy. The authors point out that these efforts are not only encouraging economic development, but they also reduce an economy#s vulnerability to the negative consequences of world trade ...

Japanese multinationals in Europe

a comparison of the automobile and pharmaceutical industries

This book explores the regional strategy and management of Japanese MNEs in Europe. Ken-ichi Ando investigates, using case studies of the auto and pharmaceutical industries, how these companies can, and do, overcome the inherent difficulties and opportunities of trading in Europe, including the problems posed ...

The evolution of the US airline industry

theory, strategy and policy

The Evolution of the US Airline Industry discusses the evolution of the hub-and-spoke network system and the associated price discrimination strategy, as the post-deregulation dominant business model of the major incumbent airlines and its breakdown in the early 2000s. It highlights the role that aircraft ...

Diccionario terminológico de la industria automotriz y del transporte = Dictionary of automotive industry and transport terminology

Technology, knowledge and the firm

implications for strategy and industrial change

There is a long-standing tradition of research that highlights the importance of differences in the organizational and technological capabilities of firms and their effect on economic performance. This book expands on this theme by exploring the role of knowledge and innovation in firm strategy and ...

Innovation policy in a knowledge-based economy

theory and practice

The main underlining conviction, throughout the book, is the importance of dynamical and systemic approaches to innovation policies. The first part of the book provides the theoretical background for the subsequent more empirical contributions. In the second part, a series of three papers analyse each ...

Industrial transformation

environmental policy innovation in the United States and Europe

The United States and European countries are experimenting with a new generation of policy approaches for combating environmental degradation. Industrial Transformation evaluates the effectiveness of twelve innovative voluntary, collaborative, and information-based programs, focusing particularly on the effectiveness of these programs in bringing about industrial transformation ...

El proceso de internacionalización del sector industrial de automoción en España

estudio de dos casos MAISA y FICONSA

INDICE: Prólogo Introducción Capítulo 1. Aproximación analítica y objetivos Capítulo 2. La industria del automóvil en España.La actividad del sector auxiliar y el fabricante de vehículos Capítulo 3. MAISA (Mecanismos auxliares industriales sociedad anónima): cincuenta años de actividad Capítulo 4. FICOSA: una pequeña empresa ...

Europe's advantage

banks and small firms in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy since 1918

Since the mid-1970s, the 'rediscovery' of small firms and of the important role they have played in the economies of continental Europe have occupied a substantial part of the literature on the sources of economic competitiveness. In Britain, the relationship between banks and industry has ...

Europe's automotive industry on the move

competitiveness in a changing world

The automotive industry is a major pillar of the modern global economy and one of Europe#s key industries. There can hardly be any doubt about the important role of this sector as an engine for employment, growth and innovation in Europe, and there are ...

Kellogg on biotechnology

thriving through integration

Biotechnology is the new capital. The many stakeholders in this revolution include scientists, technologists, managers, and venture capitalists; health care, agricultural, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries; law professionals and ethicists; public policymakers; and, finally, the society and individuals who are in the midst of all that ...

Innovación y capacidad para emprender

diagnóstico de la situación en España y líneas de acción

La capacidad emprendedora española actual no va acompañada por una actividad innovadora destacada y así lo vienen demostrando diversos estudios realizados como Global Entrepreneurship Monitor o European Innovation Scoreboard. Ello deriva en la debilidad de las empresas creadas,su escasa capacidad de crecimiento,su limitada ...

(E)Evolution

organizations and the dynamics of the environment

(R)Evolution studies the adaptation of industrial organisations to the dynamics of the environment by drawing an analogy with evolutionary biology, by extensively studying literature in management science, and by case studies. These investigations have lead to the insight that companies might evolve slower than ...

Estrategia de innovación

El objetivo de este libro es proporcionar a los estudiantes y directivos los conceptos y herramientas relacionados con la tecnología y la innovación. El resultado es un manual simultáneamente teórico y práctico. Es teórico porque agrupa de forma coherente las ideas y propuestas de los ...

La oruga y la mariposa

un caso ejemplar de desarrollo en la Italia de los Distritos Industriales Prato (1954-1993)

Inspirándose en la figura de Alfred Marshall, el profesor Giacomo Becattini tiene el mérito de haber planteado un enfoque alternativo a la forma convencional de analizar los hechos económicos, de gran impacto internacional. Una perspectiva en clave no ya sectorial sino espacial, asociada al concepto ...