1st Edition

Institutional Diversity and Innovation Continuing and Emerging Patterns in Japan and China

By Cornelia Storz, Sebastian Schäfer Copyright 2011
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

The concept of "innovation systems" has gained considerable attention from scholars and politicians alike. The concept promises not only to serve as a tool to explain sustained economic development, but also to provide policy-makers with scientifically grounded policy options to advance the growth of economies. The thrust of much recent literature has been to review existing empirical findings in... Read more

Foreword, Richard Whitley Introduction 1. The nature and measurement of innovation 2. The institutional foundations of innovation 3. Institution and innovation 4. The J-system of innovation: Continuity of the ‘intrapreneurial’ pattern of innovation 5. Towards a new C-system of innovation

Biography

Cornelia Storz is Professor of Japanese Economy in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, and Associate Researcher at the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS, France. She is co-editor of Competitiveness of New Industries: Institutional Framework and Learning in Information Technology and of Institutional Variety in East Asia: Formal and informal patterns of coordination.

Sebastian Schäfer is currently Research Assistant in the Department of Management and Microeconomics, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany.

Marcus Conlé is a Research Assistant at the Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.