Geography, Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Edited by Urban Gråsjö, PhD, School of Business, Economics and IT, University West, Charlie Karlsson, Professor Emeritus of the Economics of Technological Change, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University and Professor Emeritus of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology and Iréne Bernhard, PhD, School of Business, Economics and IT, University West, Sweden

• Contents:1. Introduction: Geography, Open Innovation and EntrepreneurshipUrban Gråsjö, Charlie Karlsson and Iréne Bernhard2. Innovation intermediaries as a response to system failures: creating the right incentivesMargherita Russo, Annalisa Caloffi, Federica Rossi and Riccardo Righi3. Does collaboration with public and private sector actors in public procurement of innovations improve SME competitiveness?Helen Reijonen, Jani Saastamoinen and Timo Tammi 4. Delivering innovation in public infrastructure through Public Private PartnershipsNunzia Carbonara and Roberta Pellegrino5. The influence of the NIH and NSH syndromes on the adoption of open innovation in the Canadian aerospace sectorFabiano Armellini, Catherine Beaudry and Maria Mahon6. Are the Most Innovative Canadian Nanotechnology-Related Firms also the Most Open?Mikaël Héroux-Vaillancourt and Catherine Beaudry7. The Proximity Bias of Communication Recorded on Twitter in SwitzerlandKatia Delbiaggio, Christoph J. Hauser and Michael Kaufmann8. Re-Conceptualising Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Theoretical Exploration of Evolution Over Space and TimeAndrew Johnston, Paul Lassalle and Sakura Yamamura9. Stimulation of Entrepreneurship and Innovation as an Instrument in Regional Business Development PolicyAndreas P. Cornett10. Startups, Financing and Geography – Findings from a surveyPer-Olof Bjuggren and Michel Elmoznino Laufer11. A resource-based view of cross-border clusters: conceptualizing locational resourcesStephan Rohde12. Regional path dependence and path creation: a conceptual way forwardSabrina Fredin13. Location, Localisation, Agglomeration: An Examination of the Geographical Dimension of FDI SpilloversJacob A. Jordaan and Vassilis Monastiriotis14. Indicators of economic development – An exploratory study using Swedish municipal data contrasting economic development and growthTobias Arvemo and Urban GråsjöIndex

'By identifying the ways in which open innovation influences the ability of incumbents and potential entrepreneurs to innovate and to appropriate the benefits of innovation, this book elegantly presents modern innovation models, highlighting the role played by context conditions, and bringing fresh reflections into a never-ending debate.'--Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy