TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edquist,Charles
AU  - Hommen,Leif
TI  - Small country innovation systems: globalization, change and policy in Asia and Europe 
SN  - 1845425847
AV  - HC415.T4 S63 2008
U1  - 303.483 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Asia
KW  - Europe
KW  - Globalization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Comparing national systems of innovation in Asia and Europe: theory and comparative framework; Charles Edquist and Leif Hommen --; Pt. I; Fast Growth Countries --; 2; The rise and growth of a policy-driven economy: Taiwan; Antonio Balaguer, Yu-Ling Luo, Min-Hua Tsai, Shih-Chang Hung, Yee-Yeen Chu, Feng-Shang Wu, Mu-Yen Hsu and Kung Wang --; 3; From technology adopter to innovator: Singapore; Poli Kam Wong and Annette Singh --; 4; Towards knowledge generation with bipolarized NSI: Korea; Chaisung Lim --; 5; High growth and innovation with low R&D: Ireland; Eoin O'Malley, Nola Hewitt-Dundas and Stephen Roper --; 6; From trade hub to innovation hub: Hong Kong; Naubahar Sharif and Erik Baark --; Pt. II; Slow Growth Countries --; 7; Reconsidering the paradox of high R&D input and low innovation: Sweden; Pierre Bitard, Charles Edquist, Leif Hommen and Annika Rickne --; 8; Low innovation intensity, high growth and specialized trajectories: Norway; Terje Gronning, Svein Erik Moen and Dorothy Sutherland Olsen --; 9; Challenged leadership or renewed vitality? The Netherlands; Bart Verspagen --; 10; Not just Nokia: Finland; Ville Kaitila and Markku Kotilainen --; 11; An NSI in transition? Denmark; Jesper Lindgaard Christensen, Birgitte Gregersen, Bjorn Johnson, Bengt-Ake Lundvall and Mark Tomlinson --; 12; Globalization and innovation policy; Leif Hommen and Charles Edquist --; App; Statistical bases of comparison for ten 'small country' NSI; Pierre Bitard, Leif Hommen and Jekaterina Novikova
N2  - "This major new book presents case studies of ten small country national systems of innovation (NSIs) in Europe and Asia, namely, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden and Taiwan. These cases have been carefully selected as examples of success within the context of globalization and as 'new economies' where competition is increasingly based on innovation."--BOOK JACKET
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