Financing Innovations of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in a Systemic Perspective: Theoretical Foundations and Cases of Hungary, Slovenia and Croa

ISBN-13: 9783631613245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 222 str.

Cvijanovic, Vladimir

Opis

The financing of innovations is observed through a systemic perspective using the framework of national systems of innovation (NSI), corporate governance and the financial system. They are all together influenced by culture and social capital. After the literature on economics of innovation, theory of the firm and financial theory is reviewed the financing of innovations is conceptualised by putting the firm with its innovative performance in focus. The concept is then applied to the empirical qualitative and quantitative analysis that covers NSIs and cases of high-technology small and medium-sized enterprises in Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia.

Spis treści

Contents: High-tech small and medium-sized enterprises - Innovation - Innovation financing - Corporate governance - Financial systems - National systems of innovation - Competitiveness - Entrepreneurship - Hungary - Slovenia - Croatia - Economics of innovation - Theory of the firm - Financial theory - Culture - Social capital - Institutional economics - Post-Keynesian theory.

O autorze

Vladimir Cvijanovic works at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb. His research interests include institutional economics, economics of innovation, cognitive capitalism, and entrepreneurship.