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Cover Digital Transitions and Innovation in Construction Value Chains
Digital Transitions and Innovation in Construction Value Chains
Industrial Relations and Equitable Socio-technical Change

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This timely book provides an innovative study of the profound changes and latest challenges facing the construction sector. It adopts a socio-technical approach to analyse not only the role of technological factors, but also that of actors and their social dialogue and industrial relations.

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Monograph Book
Published:
10 Nov 2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803924045
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2023
Cover The Geography of Academic Entrepreneurship
The Geography of Academic Entrepreneurship
Spin-offs, Firm Growth and Regional Impact

Building on a variety of contrasting perspectives, this book focuses on the connection between university spin-offs and regional economic development. It aptly captures the diverse range of concepts relating to the main participants in the process of university spin-offs, reflecting on their roles and how these may have changed.

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Monograph Book
Published:
15 Jun 2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857937056
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2023
Cover How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research
How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research
The Art of Informing and Impacting Policy

Increasingly, academics are finding that engaging with external stakeholders can be both fruitful in undertaking research and an effective way to impact policy. With insightful and practical advice from a diverse range of contributors, including academics, policy makers, civil servants and knowledge exchange professionals, this accessible book explores How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research.

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Monograph Book
Published:
19 Jul 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378964
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2022
Cover Handbook of Proximity Relations
Handbook of Proximity Relations
This Handbook is a state-of-the-art analysis of proximity relations, offering insights into its history alongside up-to-date scientific advances and emerging questions. Its broad scope – from industrial and innovation approaches through to society issues of living and working at a distance, territorial development and environmental topics – will ensure an in-depth focus point for researchers in economics as well as geography, organizational studies, planning and sociology.
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Handbook
Published:
18 Jan 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786434784
Collection:
Economics 2022
Cover Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Unlocking Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Potential for Increasing Capacities
Illuminating and timely, this book explores several theoretical and empirical issues related to the potential for increasing capacities for innovation, knowledge and entrepreneurship. It highlights the current academic and political consensus that calls for policy interventions targeted towards more balanced, inclusive and regionally cohesive growth.
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Monograph Book
Published:
08 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371248
Collection:
Economics 2021
Cover Big Data Applications in Geography and Planning
Big Data Applications in Geography and Planning
An Essential Companion
This unique book demonstrates the utility of big data approaches in human geography and planning. Offering a carefully curated selection of case studies, it reveals how researchers are accessing big data, what this data looks like and how such data can offer new and important insights and knowledge.
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Handbook
Published:
07 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909791
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Networks, SMEs, and the University
Networks, SMEs, and the University
The Process of Collaboration and Open Innovation
Exploring the process of university collaboration from the perspective of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this book offers an in-depth examination of the collaboration process, dispelling the myth of the disengagement of these firms. Andrew Johnston and Robert Huggins present a thorough account of how SMEs can ‘unlock the ivory tower’ and gain access to university knowledge to support their own innovation.
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Monograph Book
Published:
09 Feb 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903386
Collection:
Economics 2021
Cover Innovative Capabilities and the Globalization of Chinese Firms
Innovative Capabilities and the Globalization of Chinese Firms
Becoming Leaders in Knowledge-intensive Innovation Ecosystems
Edited by
Maureen McKelvey
and
Jun Jin
This book explains how Chinese firms are increasingly developing innovative capabilities and engaging in globalization. It focuses on knowledge-intensive and innovative entrepreneurial firms and multinationals, which already are – or are striving to become – world-leaders in their technologies and markets, and which do so by their use of advanced knowledge for innovation as well as their ability to act globally. The book advances related debates in entrepreneurship, innovation management, economic geography and international business.
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Monograph Book
Published:
08 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786434487
Collection:
Economics 2020
Cover Diversity, Innovation and Clusters
Diversity, Innovation and Clusters
Spatial Perspectives
Increased emphasis on the links between regional diversity and regional knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship highlights the need for a focus on the spatial aspects of these multifaceted, dynamic relationships in order to improve our understanding. By means of a conceptual approach, this timely book illustrates the links between innovation and economic development through the role of space. This thought-provoking book addresses the questions regarding diversity, innovation and clusters that require further investigation and analysis.
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Monograph Book
Published:
19 May 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902587
Collection:
Economics 2020
Cover Regions and Innovation Policies in Europe
Regions and Innovation Policies in Europe
Learning from the Margins
Offering a novel contribution within the growing field of regional innovation policies, this book combines recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, with a particular focus on non-core regions. Leading academics in the field discuss the topics of regional path transformation, place-based strategies and policy learning. Also included are sections on the role of EU institutions on the promotion of regional innovation and the analysis and comparison of the innovation policies experiences of four non-core European regions.
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Monograph Book
Published:
01 Apr 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904161
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020