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Sectoral Systems of Innovation: Concepts, Issues and Analyses of Six Major Sectors in Europe

Franco Malerba
07 May 2009-
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the development of high-technology entrepreneurship in Europe through the lens of a sectoral innovation system, and the international performance of European sectoral systems was analyzed.
Abstract: Introduction Part I. Sectoral Sytems: Concepts and Issues: 1. Sectoral systems of innovation: basic concepts Franco Malerba 2. Sectoral dynamics and structural change: stylised facts and 'system of innovation' approaches Fabio Montobbio Part II. Six Sectoral Systems: 3. Pharmaceuticals analysed through the lens of a sectoral innovation system Maureen McKelvey, Luigi Orsenigo and Fabio Pammolli 4. The chemical sectoral system: firms, markets, institutions and the process of knowledge creation and diffusion Fabrizio Cesaroni, Alfonso Gambardella, Walter Garcia-Fontes and Myriam Mariani 5. The fixed internet and mobile telecommunications sectoral system of innovation equipment production, access provision and content provision Charles Edquist 6. The European software sectoral system of innovation W. Edward Steinmueller 7. Machine tools: the remaking of a traditional sectoral innovation system Jurgen Wengel and Philip Shapira 8. Services and systems of innovation Bruce S. Tether and J. Stan Metcalfe Part III. Sectoral Systems and National Systems: International Performance and Public Policy: 9. National institutional frameworks, institutional complementarities and sectoral systems of innovation Benjamin Corait, Olivier Weinstein 10. Sectoral systems of innovation and varieties of capitalism: explaining the development of high-technology entrepreneurship in Europe Steven Casper and David Soskice 11. The international performance of European sectoral systems Benjamin Coriat, Franco Malerba and Fabio Montobbio 12. Sectoral systems: implications for European technology policy Charles Edquist, Franco Malerba, Stan Metcalfe, Fabio Montobbio and Ed Steinmueller Part IV. Conclusions: 13. Summing up and conclusions Franco Malerba.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the co-evolution of MNE activities and institutions external and internal to the firm, and highlight the scope for firm-level creativity and institutional entrepreneurship that may lead to coevolution with the environment.
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  • ...…systems (Dosi, 1999; Freeman, 1995; Murmann, 2003), regional innovation systems (Cooke, 2001; Freeman, 2002) and sectoral innovation systems (Malerba, 2004) likewise reason in terms of the interrelationships between firms and their wider environments, but again they tend to stress…...

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  • ...The literatures on national innovation systems (Dosi, 1999; Freeman, 1995; Murmann, 2003), regional innovation systems (Cooke, 2001; Freeman, 2002) and sectoral innovation systems (Malerba, 2004) likewise reason in terms of the interrelationships between firms and their wider environments, but again they tend to stress environment-level and collective determinants of systemic change, rather than the effects of a variety of differentiated firm-level initiatives on the wider environment....

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01 Jul 2008-Research Policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the use of specialist knowledge providers as sources of information in the innovation activities of manufacturing and service firms and find that they are more likely to be engaged by firms with more open approaches to innovation, those with high levels of absorptive capacity, those having greater social capital and networking capabilities, as well as by those with deeper commitments to innovation.

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