Small Country Innovation Systems: Globalization, Change and Policy in Asia and Europe

摘要

In their major new book on innovation systems Charles Edquist and Leif Hommen of the Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, bring together case studies of ten small country national systems of innovation (NSIs) in Europe and Asia, namely, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden and Taiwan. This book offers certainly one of the most significant, comprehensive and comparative country studies of NSIs in the last decade. It would be widely read by every serious student and scholar of innovation studies. Its results support the students of innovation theory in respect of the material needed for building the case for a distinctive role of national systems of innovation in the age of globalisation.