Enhancing the Effectiveness of Innovation

New Roles for Key Players

国际编辑威廉Molle是的,教授Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Senior Adviser, ECORYS Research and Consulting, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Julia Djarova, EY Advisory

The limits of established innovation processes have become clear as nations increasingly champion innovation as a tool of the ever-important ‘knowledge economy’. This timely book analyses the effectiveness of innovation efforts, presenting challenges to the traditional approaches whilst developing more contemporary theories.

‘The tasks confronting European governments intent on innovation will need to shift from simple quantitative measures of how much (R&D, etc.) to how good such magnitudes are in augmenting competitiveness – from quantity to quality. In this book, the editors and their contributors move the debate on to concerns over the effectiveness of innovation. This is not just a matter of making linkages among increasingly diverse players, but of making these linkages themselves effective. The book takes an important step forward for innovation policy at all levels, from regional to global.’
– Nick von Tunzelmann, University of Sussex, UK