Localized creativity, small high-tech entrepreneurship, related innovation platforms, social capital embedded in dynamically open territorial communities and context-specific though continuously upgrading policy platforms are all means to face new challenges and to promote incre…
"Entrepreneurs have long been drivers of innovation in developed countries. They start companies and create new industries that keep economies strong and prosperous. Today, however, in developing nations such as China, state-controlled economies are building robust industries at…
"Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Corporate Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collect…
Studies of Japan's economy are full of misconceptions. The conventional view of the Japanese economy argues that the Japanese economic system, described by such keywords as dual structure, keiretsu, corporate groups, main banks, and subcontract, played a critical role in Japan's…
Studies of Japan's economy are full of misconceptions. The conventional view of the Japanese economy argues that the Japanese economic system, described by such keywords as dual structure, keiretsu, corporate groups, main banks, and subcontract, played a critical role in Japan's…
This book describes the adoption, growth and subsequent relinquishment of industrial subsidies in the UK, tracing their development back to the early years of this century and following their extension through to virtually every area of economic policy. This includes the foothol…
