Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship in Low-Tech Industries - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783472030 ISBN 13: 9781783472031

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

This book contributes to the discussion about the relevance of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship for industrial innovation in the context of traditional low-technology industries.

There is a widespread assumption that low-tech industries offer limited opportunities for entrepreneurial activity due to their mature character. Yet there are indications that the phenomenon is finally emerging in these traditional sectors. This detailed book contributes to the ongoing political debate on relevant policy measures to promote future industrial innovation. It extends awareness of the relevance of low-tech industries for future economic and societal development, linking both scientific and political perspectives. Detailed chapters identify the typical patterns, prerequisites and impacts of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship, as well as the distribution of entrepreneurial activities in low-tech sectors. The authors conclude with policy recommendations to promote such activities.

This book will appeal to social scientists, economists and students of innovation and entrepreneurship studies. Policy-makers and company representatives will also find much of interest in this book, with its surprising insights into a field that has been so far neglected in the scientific as well as the policy-oriented debate.

Contributors: Y.D. Caloghirou, T.F. Fernandes, M.M. Godinho, A. Havas, H. Hirsch-Kreinsen, G. Karagouni, I. Kastelli, R.P. Mamede, A. Protogerou, I. Schwinge, A. Tsakanikas, A.Y. Yudanov

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About the Author

Edited by Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen, Professor of Economic and Industrial Sociology, TU Dortmund University, Germany and Isabel Schwinge, Research Associate and Lecturer at the Chair of Economic and Industrial Sociology, TU Dortmund University, Germany

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783472030
• ISBN 13: 9781783472031
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Hirsch-Kreinsen Hartmut, Schwinge Isabel