Innovation in SMEs and Micro Firms
Culture, Entrepreneurial Dynamics and Regional Development
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Innovation in SMEs and Micro Firms
Culture, Entrepreneurial Dynamics and Regional Development
About this book
What is the role of culture in the innovation dynamic of small firms within the context of their territorial environments? How do shared values, beliefs and practices underpin the knowledge production process that leads to innovation? In what way do symbolic aspects of social life shape European SMEs' innovation processes?
This volume gives an extensive insight into the complex links between culture and innovation in one of the key agents of economic life: SMEs and micro firms. The chapters employ different analytical and methodological strategies in regions of Europe to identify dimensions of culture, especially values, norms, skills and institutions, and to scrutinize which specific components of culture are relevant to firm innovation and to the more general dynamics of regional innovation. The original research presented shows how small firms learn, interact, compete and collaborate with other key agents of the innovation system. Taken as a whole, the volume points the way towards a more comprehensive framework for understanding the nature of innovation in SMEs and micro firms.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- INTRODUCTION Key issues on innovation, culture and institutions: implications for SMEs and micro firms
- Culture and innovation in SMEs: the intellectual structure of research for further inquiry
- Exploring the links between culture and innovation in micro firms: cultural dimensions, social mechanisms and outcomes
- The ‘Enterprise of Innovation’ in hard times: corporate culture and performance in Italian high-tech companies
- A new approach to business innovation modes: the ‘Research, Technology and Human Resource Management (RTH )model’ in the ICT sector in Belarus
- Strengthening SMEs’ innovation culture through collaborations with public research organizations. Do all firms benefit equally?
- Innovative culture in district innovation systems of European ceramics SMEs
- Entrepreneurial process in peripheral regions: the role of motivation and culture
- Making visible the role of vocational education and training in firm innovation: evidence from Spanish SMEs
- Pragmatic urbanism: London’s railway arches and small-scale enterprise
- The use of design as a strategic tool for innovation: an analysis for different firms’ networking behaviours
- Index