1st Edition

Innovation Policies and Practices within Innovation Ecosystems

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

While intense efforts of clarification have been made to distinguish between the concept of system and ecosystem, and between the different forms of ecosystems, very few works have addressed the issues of how these different forms of ecosystems are interacting in a dynamic perspective, or of how the notion of a dynamic ecosystem could emerge from the static frame of a system approach. The five... Read more

Introduction: Innovation policies and practices within innovation ecosystems 

Catherine Beaudry, Thierry Burger-Helmchen and Patrick Cohendet 

1. Exploring regional innovation ecosystems: an empirical study in China 

Ke Rong, Y. Lin, J. Yu, Y. Zhang and A. Radziwon 

2. Entrepreneurship, complexity and the emergent order in the techno-economic scenario of the twenty-first century. Evidence from a field study in Tuscany 

Leonardo Mazzoni, Luciana Lazzeretti and Niccolò Innocenti 

3. Local innovation ecosystem: structure and impact on adaptive capacity of firms 

James Boyer, Jude Ozor and Patrick Rondé 

4. The evolution of knowledge-intensive innovation ecosystems: co-evolving entrepreneurial activity and innovation policy in the West Swedish maritime system 

Ethan Gifford, Maureen McKelvey and Rögnvaldur Saemundsson 

Biography

Catherine Beaudry is Full Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering and Canada Research Chair at École Polytechnique Montréal, Canada.

Thierry Burger-Helmchen is Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Strasbourg, France.

Patrick Cohendet is Professor in the Department of International Business at HEC Montréal, Canada.