Promoting Innovation in New Ventures and Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Business scholars identify themes that can reunite the study and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation by examining a potentially bridging phenomenon. Rather than the more common lifestyle businesses, they focus on high-growth, innovative small and medium companies and on the interactions between them and larger public and private organizations. In sections on innovation and performance, practices for innovation, and networks for open innovation, they consider such aspects as innovation and growth in the city region: microeconomic evidence of asymmetries, perceived competition and innovation in Dutch companies, organizational determinants and innovation practices in Dubai, relationships between universities and small and medium companies in emerging high-technology businesses: the case of opto-electronics, and the impact of perceived usefulness of workplace social networks on the innovative behavior of employees: a social capital perspective. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)