(DOWNLOAD) "Learning for Innovation In the Global Knowledge Economy" by Dimitrios Konstadakopulos * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Learning for Innovation In the Global Knowledge Economy
- Author : Dimitrios Konstadakopulos
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4473 KB
Description
This book is a major step forward in understanding the learning behaviour of clustered technology-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Drawing upon qualitative and quantitative research methods and sampling techniques, it identifies how learning for innovation is stimulated or inhibited. The reader is encouraged to consider:
• how the institutional context and local setting influence the learning behaviour and innovative capacity of high technology SMEs
• the evolutionary development of technological policies in the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN), and the scope of EU-ASEAN technological co-operation
• how regional SMEs network and collaborate with each other with regard to innovation
• whether common patterns of learning behaviour and co-operation are present within surveyed SMEs situated in the West of England M4/M5 corridors and the Singapore-Johor (Malaysia) cross-border area
• the principal factors that underpin innovative behaviour
• how to furth