If the industrial economy ran on coal and iron ore, the fuel of today's economy is knowledge.
1 Technologies have always been underpinned by knowledge, but an economy run on …

A global knowledge economy has emerged in recent decades. For example, the evolution of
developed economies has been accompanied by a regional shift in economic activity: from …

There are several reasons why a reader concerned with innovation and entrepreneurship
will find this book interesting and worth reading. First, this book examines an important type …

This book examines entrepreneurship from three interrelated perspectives. Firstly, it links
entrepreneurship to innovation and to the generation, transformation and use of knowledge …

A great deal of policy thinking in the last ten to 15 years has been driven by the insights
gained from the so‐called “new growth theory”. The theory emphasizes that investments in …

The purpose of this chapter is to present a framework for a Swedish project aiming at
understanding and explaining how new firms emerge and evolve in the sector of the …

On September 17 and 18, 1998, a conference took place at Mont Tremblant on the theme"
Doing Business in a Knowledge-Based Economy." This conference brought together some …

Immediate and fast changes are becoming the normal case of today's business
environment. In order to survive in such an environment, firms need to have the capacity to …

The Netherlands and Belgium are said to lose momentum as leading knowledgebased
economies. There have been many debates as to what explains this and what policies might …

The knowledge economy is one in which growth, value, and an improving standard of living
are inextricably tied to knowledge, its creation, and its distribution. Knowledge processing …