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Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Editors:

  1. Elias G. Carayannis

    1. Department of Information Systems and Technology, Management, European Union Research Center, GWU School of Business, The George Washington University, Washington, USA

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  • Illuminates the many facets of creativity and innovation
  • Features full-color illustrations and case examples
  • Contains some 400 entries, definitions and review essays
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (1546 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlv
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    5. Academic Entrepreneur, Academic Entrepreneurship

      • Thorsten D. Barth, Willi Schlegelmilch
      Pages 1-8

    6. Academic Entrepreneurship

      • Julie Ray
      Pages 8-16

    7. Academic Firm

      • David F. J. Campbell, Elias G. Carayannis, Wolfgang H. Güttel
      Pages 16-23

    8. Academic Spin-Off

      Pages 23-23

    9. Accompaniment

      Pages 23-23

    10. Accompaniment of Business Creation

      • Didier Chabaud, Karim Messeghem, Sylvie Sammut
      Pages 23-28

    11. Accountability

      Pages 29-29

    13. Actor-Network-Theory and Creativity Research

      • Gerald Bartels, Nicolas Bencherki
      Pages 29-36

    14. Actors Management

      Pages 36-36

    15. Adaptation

      Pages 36-36

    16. Adaptive Creativity and Innovative Creativity

      • Kyung Hee Kim, Noël Williams
      Pages 36-39

    17. ADD

      Pages 39-39

    18. Addition

      Pages 39-39

    19. Adverse Selection

      Pages 39-39
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About this book

The second edition of this exhaustive work (ECIIE) comprehensively covers the broad spectrum of topics relating to the process of creativity and innovation, from a wide variety of perspectives (e.g., economics, management, psychology, anthropology, policy, technology, education, the arts) and modes (individual, organization, industry, nation, region). This edition includes some 400 topical entries, definitions of key terms and concepts and review essays, from a global array of more than 250 researchers, business executives, policymakers, and artists, illuminating the many facets of creativity and innovation and highlighting their relationships to such universal concepts as knowledge management, economic opportunity, and sustainability. Entries feature description of key concepts and definition of terms, full-color illustrations, case examples, future directions for research and application, synonyms and cross-references and bibliographic references.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Information Systems and Technology, Management, European Union Research Center, GWU School of Business, The George Washington University, Washington, USA

    Elias G. Carayannis

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About the editor

Dr. Elias G. Carayannis is Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, as well as co-Founder and co-Director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) and Director of Research on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, European Union Research Center, (EURC) at the School of Business of the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Dr. Carayannis‘ teaching and research activities focus on the areas of strategic Government-University-Industry R&D partnerships, technology road-mapping, technology transfer and commercialization, international science and technology policy, technological entrepreneurship and regional economic development.
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