Innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Philip McCann and Les Oxley

• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.9
• Soggetto topico: Entrepreneurship; Technological innovations; Economic geography; Small business - Growth
• Altri autori: McCannPhilip <1964-> OxleyLes
• Note generali: "Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of economic surveys (volume 26, Issue 3)."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, GEOGRAPHY AND GROWTH; 2 THEORIES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE; 1. Models of Creative Destruction and the Business Cycle; 1.1 Schumpeter's Theory of Business Cycles and Creative Destruction; 1.2 A Formal Model; 2. Innovation and Implementation Cycles; 3. Models of Production Under Asymmetric Information; 3.1 Costly State Verification; 3.2 Moral Hazard; 3.3 Adverse Selection; 4. Concluding Remarks; Note; References ; 3 THE TRANSATLANTIC PRODUCTIVITY GAP: A SURVEY OF THE MAIN CAUSES1. Introduction; 2. Historical Evolution of the EU-US Productivity Growth Differentials; 2.1 Productivity Differences between the US and EU as a Whole; 2.2 Productivity Differences US and Different Parts of Europe; 3. The R&D-ICT Intensity Gap; 4. Industry Comparisons and the Diffusion of ICTs; 4.1 The New Economy Effect; 4.2 Service Sectors; 4.3 The Case of Retailing; 5. Other Issues: Market Rigidities, Firm Organization and Entrepreneurship; 5.1 Product Markets; 5.2 Labour Markets; 5.3 Organizational and Managerial Issues ; 5.4 The Entrepreneurial Environment and Culture6. Measurement Issues; 7. Conclusions; Note; References; 4 A SURVEY OF THE INNOVATION SURVEYS; 1. Introduction to Innovation; 2. Evolutions in Our Understanding of Innovation; 3. Measures of Innovation; 3.1 Innovation Surveys Around the World; 3.2 Survey-Related Researches; 3.2.1 Dependent Variables; 3.2.2 Independent Variables; 3.2.3 Firm Behaviour and Strategy; 3.2.4 The Overall Environment of the Firm; 4. Final Remarks; Notes; References; 5 KNOWLEDGE DYNAMICS, STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF BUSINESS SERVICES; 1. Introduction ; 2. Knowledge, Technology and Structural Change2.1 Knowledge and Technology; 2.2 Technology and Structural Change; 3. Structural Change and the Raise of (Knowledge-Intensive) BS; 3.1 'Much Ado About Services': From the Classical Tradition of Unproductive Hands to the Cost Disease; 3.2 Knowledge Dynamics, Intermediate Demand and KIBS Growth; 4. Knowledge Dynamics and Spatial Agglomeration of BS; 4.1 Urbanisation Externalities and Knowledge Density; 4.2 Backward and Forward Linkages; 5. Concluding Remarks; Notes; References ; 6 MULTILEVEL APPROACHES AND THE FIRM-AGGLOMERATION AMBIGUITY IN ECONOMIC GROWTH STUDIES1. The Firm in Agglomeration Studies: The Missing Link?; 2. The Macro to Micro Link in Agglomeration Economics and Organization Studies; 2.1 Agglomeration Economics; 2.2 Agglomeration in Organization Studies; 3. The Multilevel Model; 3.1 From Macro to Micro; 3.2 The Multilevel Framework; 4. Case Study 1: New Firm Survival and Growth in Advanced Producer Services; 4.1 Agglomeration in the Advanced Producer Service Sector; 4.2 A Mixed Hierarchical and Cross-Classified Model ; 4.3 Adding Predictor Variables and Cross-Level Interactions
• Titolo autorizzato: Innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth
• ISBN: 1-118-42724-6; 1-299-15769-6; 1-118-42727-0; 1-118-42726-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910840520003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Surveys of Recent Research in Economics