Examines the challenges to private sector growth in 12 Middle East and North African (MENA) countries, assessing comparative performance against a number of indicators and focusing on the special role of SMEs and entrepreneurial activity. Highlights the variation among countries…
Despite the accelerating pace of globalization, it is impossible to ignore the marginalization of the developing world, as billions of people continue to slip deeper into poverty. While many theories, policies, and practices have been proposed to help redress the disparities bet…
This study contains a range of theoretical and empirically based research contributions that collectively consider and debate the process, policy and practice of the creative economy.
Focuses on a key dynamic that is changing the business environment : the globalization of production, which has major implications for the growth prospects of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Asia and the Pacific. Shows that the current global economic environment is…
Extreme poverty continues to afflict the world, and it requires urgent action. Social innovation can be the driving force to spark change and to find common ground for shared value creation, particularly when it is directed at low-income markets. Leading companies have recently …
"This is a timely book placing tourism innovation in the context of current academic and policy concerns relating to knowledge, competition and the management of change. An introductory chapter describes how innovation in tourism is both distinctive from and similar to innovatio…
Mariana Mazzucato debunks the myth of the state as a static bureaucratic organization only needed for the 'basics' and to 'fix' market failures, leaving dynamic entrepreneurship and innovation to the private sector. Case studies, from the Internet to the green revolution, reveal…
This book, which builds on the author's work for a high-impact DEMOS report, debunks the myth of the state as a large bureaucratic organization that can at best facilitate the creative innovation which happens in the dynamic private sector. Analysing various case studies of inno…
