* Draws on up-to-date empirical evident to illustrate how SMEs can become more innovative through the introduction of new products and services.
* Discusses the effective and efficient use of information technology by broadening management skills and knowledge.

This book provides a detailed, multi-disciplinary analysis of innovation networks in a variety of organisational settings. All the contributors are employed at Aston Business School, which is one of the UK's foremost institutions in terms of both teaching and research. The book illustrates the way in which innovation networks are formed and sustained in a variety of organisational settings: the public sector, public-private collaboration, national policy level, inter-organisational credit links, as well as the more traditional focus on manufacturing firms. The strength of the network approach...