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Innovation Systems in the Service Economy

Measurement and Case Study Analysis

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Editors:
  1. J. Stanley Metcalfe

    1. ESRC Center for Research on Innovation and Competition, The University of Manchester, UK

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  2. Ian Miles

    1. ESRC Center for Research on Innovation and Competition, The University of Manchester, UK

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Part of the book series: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation (ESTI, volume 18)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction, Overview and Reprise

    1. Introduction, Overview and Reprise

      • J. Stanley Metcalfe, Ian Miles
      Pages 1-12

  3. Conceptual Frameworks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Distributed Innovation Systems and Instituted Economic Processes

      • Birgitte Andersen, J. Stanley Metcalfe, Bruce Tether
      Pages 15-42

    3. Innovation as a Loosely Coupled System in Services

      • Jon Sundbo, Faïz Gallouj
      Pages 43-68

    4. Recombination and the Production of Technological Knowledge: Some International Evidence

      • Cristiano Antonelli
      Pages 69-82

  4. Measuring Service Innovation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Innovation, Measurement and Services: The New Problematique

      • Rod Coombs, Ian Miles
      Pages 85-103

    3. Rethinking Innovation Comparisons Between Manufacturing and Services: The Experience of the CBR SME Surveys in the UK

      • Alan Hughes, Eric Wood
      Pages 105-124

    4. Service Innovation: What Makes it Different? Empirical Evidence from Germany

      • Brigitte Preissl
      Pages 125-148

    5. Information Flows and Knowledge Creation in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Scheme for a Conceptualization

      • Christiane Hipp
      Pages 149-167

    6. Indicators of Manufacturing and Service Innovation: Their Strengths and Weaknesses

      • Alfred Kleinknecht
      Pages 169-186

    7. Structural Change and Technological Externalities in the Service Sector: Some Evidence from Italy

      • Gilberto Antonelli, Guilio Cainelli, Nicola De Liso, Roberto Zoboli
      Pages 187-217

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 331-340
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About this book

A frequent complaint in literature is that services have been previously largely overlooked by innovation researchers and technology policy makers. Given the unarguable growth in the importance of the service sectors, increasing numbers of researchers and policy makers have taken a fresh look at service activities.
Innovation Systems in the Service Economy: Measurement and Case Study Analysis presents contributions which increase the understanding of the role of services in the development of the division of labor in modern economics. This volume is devoted to the elaboration and understanding of the following two themes. First, service firms can be innovative in their own right, even though the process of innovation and the kinds of innovation may be different from those traditionally associated with manufacturing and other primary activities. Second, service firms and associated activities play an important role in the evolving division of creative labor which is constituted by modern innovative systems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ESRC Center for Research on Innovation and Competition, The University of Manchester, UK

    J. Stanley Metcalfe, Ian Miles

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovation Systems in the Service Economy

  • Book Subtitle: Measurement and Case Study Analysis

  • Editors: J. Stanley Metcalfe, Ian Miles

  • Series Title: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4425-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7730-6Published: 31 January 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6992-9Published: 03 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-4425-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1381-0480

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 339

  • Topics: Economic Growth, Industrial Organization

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