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Provides an understanding of key variables that play a significant role at the various stages of the innovation process, leading to successful commercialisation of products and services. This book consists of contributions focusing on theory, research and practise in the field of innovation, management and entrepreneurship.

To solve the climate crisis, the world must make a wholesale shift to renewable energy technologies. This work considers how such a shift might happen. Focusing on the case of solar photovoltaics, it shows how, at the start of the 21st century, this promising technology began to diffuse rapidly in select emerging markets.

Identifies and describes the natural development process which all successful business people use intuitively when starting and running a business. This book incorporates a process with concrete steps to attain business success applicable for any business. It deals with the most fundamental principles in business.

The areas of opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial environments are of particular interest to practitioners. This book provides insight into the environmental changes that open up opportunities for entrepreneurs.

Combining quantitative and qualitative research, this is a rigorous study of how China can sustain its rapid economic growth and development by strengthening its indigenous innovative capability. Using large panel datasets and in-depth industry case studies, it examines the motivations, sources, obstacles and consequences of China's innovation and technological upgrading.

Presents fundamental thinking about business organization and explores factors which impact the viability and growth of business enterprises. This book considers, in particular, the role of entrepreneurship, organizational learning, and business strategy - including licensing strategy.

Based on a collection of research papers from international scholars, this book provides an analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing female entrepreneurs worldwide.

Brings to the non-specialist not only the crucial issues of entrepreneurship, but also bridges the gap between business knowledge and expert knowledge from other disciplines.

A comprehensive and integrative overview of the current thinking on innovation, entrepreneurship, and technical change, written from an economics perspective, for academics, graduate, and advanced undergraduate students of Business Studies, Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Studies.

Is there such a thing as an 'entrepreneurial personality'? This book shows that the entrepreneurial personality is, on the one hand, socially constructed, but on the other hand, presents consistency in behaviours, skills and competencies.

This textbook on international business integrates the academic study of international trade and foreign direct investment with the actual strategic and operational decisions of exporters and multinational enterprises.

This book provides the essentials to write a successful business plan. The reader gets acquainted with the skills and competencies as well as tools, required for the planning and development of the business plan project.

Examines how values-centered entrepreneurs balance the profit objective with social responsibility in key aspects of their business operation - from their initial company formation, through growth, to exit - to build successful triple bottom-line companies.

Brooklyn Brewery cofounders Hindy and Potter left their jobs midlife to become entrepreneurs. In the fifteen years since they began brewing and selling beer from their home, they have grown their business into an international success, now shipping half a million cases worldwide each year.

Enquires the relationship that exists between firms and markets, with examinations of both the existence and inner organisation of the firm. This work encompasses a wealth of existing literature and leads it in a new direction. It is intended for economic scholars particularly within the fields of Austrian economies and the theory of the firm.

Social Enterprise in Emerging Market Countries provides a clear picture of where impact enterprises are, where they need to go, who the players in the impact enterprise field are, and how they can take the bold steps needed to facilitate the growth and impact of unique models.

Intended for one-term and two-term courses, this coursebook helps students to build the bridge between the business plan and their business degree. It includes tutorial questions, review summaries, cases and examples.

This study examines entrepreneur profiles and the patterns of business development. The contributors then use the social science disciplines to find the criteria for the survival and success of independent businesses, shedding light on the "transition from socialism".

Offers a vigorous and critical investigation of government policy for inner city regeneration during the 1980s and 90s, and in light of Canary Wharf, presents a credible prediction for the future (or lack of) of the inner city.

Presents a sophisticated evolutionary view of key organizational paradigms that gives readers a unified understanding of modern organizations. This second edition is a synthesis of the major organizational paradigms under the umbrella of organizational theory. It is suitable for scholars and students.

An economic analysis of entrepreneurship and the development process for innovation. It seeks to distinguish the role of the capitalist from that of an entrepreneur, and to show how the entrepreneur's actions impact new employment, economic growth, and advancements in the standard of living.

Examining entrepreneurship and small business in Russia and the key countries of Eastern Europe, this book shows how small businesses have developed, and discusses how market reforms and a market mentality have been taken up by ordinary people in the real everyday economy.

Successful business ideas are not so much about talent as about a systematic approach. The book presents new, applicable entrepreneurship methods for developing creative market insight, for identifying windows of opportunity, creating business concepts and entrepreneurial strategies for successful market entry.

Though central to the market process, entrepreneurship is often overlooked by theorists. This work presents the entrepreneur as theorist, developing ideas to be tested in the market, creating new ventures through trial and error.

This new perspective on Japanese economic history explores the struggles of entrepreneurs and civic-minded local leaders in fostering innovative activity. Through 50 case studies, Ibata-Arens explores the socio-political foundations of sound innovation and entrepreneurship policy, offering a model for further testing.