This impressive book sees the author applying and extending the resource based view of the firm to explain and predict the strategy of corporate diversification.
Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification is an original and authoritative book that will be extremely useful to academics and students in such disciplines as business economics, corporate strategy and international business.

This useful new book reviews the literature on technology and economic growth covering historical and theoretical developments such as:
*new models for measuring productivity
*sources of technical knowledge and technological spillovers
*stock market reactions to investment in technology
Such a comprehensive survey is likely to be welcomed by students and academics involved in business economics, strategy and technology, as well as being extremely useful for public sector employees concerned with science and technology policy and planning, and private sector employees in research...

In globalising economies, particularly those going through a process of economic integration such as those economies within the EU, regions forge an increasing number of linkages with other locations within and across national borders. This is largely carried out by the technological efforts of Multinational Corporations (MNCs).
This book explores the regional dimension of Europe in terms of localised technological comparative advantages and the location of innovative activities by MNCs. Using an empirical analysis John Cantwell and Simona Iammarino cover...

The biotechnology industry is an extremely important sector in the developed world's economies. This book, with contributions from an international array of experts, explains why biotechnology companies in different countries concentrate in a small number of locations and what accounts for the success some of these companies then go on to have.
This interesting book covers such themes as:
* the role of small firms in US biotechnology clusters
* geographic clustering in the UK
* case studies involving the sectors in a cross-section of European companies
With such international...

The ongoing process of revision and rethinking of the foundations of economic theory leads to great complexities and contradictions at the heart of economics. The Economics of Innovation provides a challenge to standard economics and one that can help it overcome its many criticisms. This title provides a systematic account of advances in the economics of innovation. By integrating this account with the economics of technological change, the book elaborates an understanding of the effects of the introduction of new technologies.

China's immersion in the world economy and trading system is a continued source of great interest throughout the globe.
The book is divided into three parts, the first being an overview of the Chinese investment environment and the development of foreign direct investment (FDI) over the last twenty years. The second part then goes on to focus specifically on the characteristics of European companies involved in FDI into China. The third part looks at different management aspects of EU invested enterprises within China, using newly acquired data.
This comprehensive overview of European...

The latest wave of European Union expansion has brought many central and Eastern European countries into the fold. Unlike previous enlargements however, the latest new members are also undergoing radical economic reform as they reintegrate into international economy.
This book reviews the changing industrial architecture of the new wider Europe from a "network" perspective, highlighting the importance of the linkages that develop between firms and governments in the new entrants and the EU. It does so on the basis of a series of case studies covering countries, sectors, and firms as well...

Local industrial clusters, such as Silicon Valley in the United States, have become an important subject of scholarly inquiry in recent years. This book offers a unifying view by capturing the general characteristics and prerequisites of local industrial clusters both on a theoretical as well as an empirical level. The book establishes a mathematical model to analyse the dynamics of clustering and the conditions that are to be satisfied if a local industrial cluster is to evolve. This model allows predictions about the spatial distribution of firms to be deducted, which are empirically tested...

The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing. Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network dynamics which discuss certain perspectives of entrepreneurial behaviour. This book closes a gap in the entrepreneurship literature. Inspired by modern physics, the author brings together an evolutionary methodology, along the way implicating quantum, graph, and percolation theory. This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to entrepreneurship, opening up new ideas in modelling. Thomas Grebel has provided a synthesis...

The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization examines the effects that recent developments in capitalism have had on shaping the global map as well as analyzing the effect on people and places which occupy different positions in the global economic system.
An international team of scholars are bought together to assess, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space and to critically examine the prevailing debates. Collectively the essays in this volume challenge the belief that Globalization shrinks time an space and leads to a homogenized global...