Innovation and Institutions: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Study of Innovation Systems

Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries make radical innovations but fail to successfully market them, whilst others making incremental innovations have more commercial success.

The book draws on a variety of different literatures and perspectives to illustrate the organizational and instit...