Sectoral Systems of Innovation : Concepts, Issues and Analyses of Six Major Sectors in Europe (Paperback)

Introduction; Part I. Sectoral Sytems: Concepts and Issues: 1. Sectoral systems of innovation: basic concepts Franco Malerba; 2. Sectoral dynamics and structural change: stylised facts and 'system of innovation' approaches Fabio Montobbio; Part II. Six Sectoral Systems: 3. Pharmaceuticals analysed through the lens of a sectoral innovation system Maureen McKelvey, Luigi Orsenigo and Fabio Pammolli; 4. The chemical sectoral system: firms, markets, institutions and the process of knowledge creation and diffusion Fabrizio Cesaroni, Alfonso Gambardella, Walter Garcia-Fontes and Myriam Mariani; 5. The fixed internet and mobile telecommunications sectoral system of innovation; equipment production, access provision and content provision Charles Edquist; 6. The European software sectoral system of innovation W. Edward Steinmueller; 7. Machine tools: the remaking of a traditional sectoral innovation system Jurgen Wengel and Philip Shapira; 8. Services and systems of innovation Bruce S. Tether and J. Stan Metcalfe; Part III. Sectoral Systems and National Systems: International Performance and Public Policy: 9. National institutional frameworks, institutional complementarities and sectoral systems of innovation Benjamin Corait, Olivier Weinstein; 10. Sectoral systems of innovation and varieties of capitalism: explaining the development of high-technology entrepreneurship in Europe Steven Casper and David Soskice; 11. The international performance of European sectoral systems Benjamin Coriat, Franco Malerba and Fabio Montobbio; 12. Sectoral systems: implications for European technology policy Charles Edquist, Franco Malerba, Stan Metcalfe, Fabio Montobbio and Ed Steinmueller; Part IV. Conclusions: 13. Summing up and conclusions Franco Malerba.