Virtually all nations and corporations prioritize efforts to build a knowledge economy and
motivate individuals to innovate in their professional and daily life. Yet, there is a growing …

What can studying the creation of knowledge tell us about how new technical fields emerge
and develop? This paper shows how a knowledge community may be necessary to support …

Drawing on the sociology of expectations and sociology of conventions, this paper explores
issues of worth and value in the bioeconomy, and the promissory character of contemporary …

Venture capital has transformed the innovation process in the US. Venture capitalists
provide funds and assist in the formation of new high technology business. They actively …

Venture capital (VC) is a relatively recent addition to the US national system of innovation
(NSI). Tracing the history of the VC industry in the US provides an interesting example of …

The development and evolution of any system–person, organization–nation depends on
how the system succeeds to bridge the gap between what the system knows and what the …

The national institutional framework of the United States economy has proven favorable to
the expansion of high-technology industries. Since the early 1980s, the US political …

Casual observers regard the emergent relationships between a venture capitalist and a
productdevelopment entrepreneurial firm, as most typically observed in Silicon Valley, as …

Entrepreneurship is the engine of innovation. The accumulated tacit knowledge and culture
of the entrepreneur are the resources essential to create wealth from research …

In this book the 'management of technological innovation'is about the decisions and
processes that generate, develop and shape technology. It is argued at the beginning that a …