Innovation and entrepreneurial networks in Europe

231 Pages·2010·3.818 MB·English

by  Paloma Fernandez Perez, Mary B Rose

Innovation and
Entrepreneurial Networks
in Europe
Routledge International Studies
in Business History
EDITED BY RAY STOKES AND MATTHIAS KIPPING
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Edited by Paloma Fernández Pérez
and Mary B. Rose

Innovation and
Entrepreneurial Networks
in Europe
Edited by Paloma Fernández Pérez
and Mary B. Rose

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Innovation and entrepreneurial networks in Europe / edited by Paloma Fernández Pérez
and Mary B. Rose.
p. cm. — (Routledge international studies in business history ; v. 18)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Entrepreneurship—Europe. 2. Technological innovations—Europe. 3. Business
networks—Europe. 4. I nnovation relay centers—Europe. I. Fernández Pérez, Paloma,
1964– II. Rose, Mary B.
HB615.I5632 2009
338.8'7—dc22
2009005118
ISBN 0-203-87300-9 Master e-book ISBN
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ISBN13: 978-0-415-45451-3 (hbk)
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Introduction: Innovation and Entrepreneurial
Networks in Europe 1
PALOMA FERNÁNDEZ PÉREZ AND MARY B. ROSE
2 Networks in Economic and Business History:
A Theoretical Perspective 14
MARK CASSON
3 Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Networks:
A Dance of Two Questions 41
MIKE PARSONS AND MARY B. ROSE
4 Management Consultancies and Organizational
Innovation in Europe 61
MATTHIAS KIPPING

5 Uncovering the Bottom of the Iceberg: Innovation
and Large Family Firms in Spanish Metal Manufacturing 81
PALOMA FERNÁNDEZ PÉREZ
6 Patterns of Innovation, Strategies and Structures
in the Italian Chemical Industry, 1973–2003 99
ANDREA COLLI
7 Competitive Behaviour and Business Innovations in the Forestry
Industry: Family Firms and Listed Firms in Comparison 118
JARI OJALA, JUHA-ANTTI LAMBERG AND ANDERS MELANDER
viii Contents
8 Networks, Cartels and Innovations in Finland, 1945–1984 138
JANI SAARINEN
9 Networks of Opportunity and the Spanish
Pharmaceutical Industry 164
NÚRIA PUIG
10 Knowledge Circulation in Innovation Networks in the
Twentieth Century: Its Importance for Innovations in
Small and Large Companies in the Netherlands 184
MILA DAVIDS, ERIC BERKERS, HARRY LINTSEN, ARJAN VAN ROOIJ,
SUE-YEN TJONG TJIN TAI AND FRANK VERAART
Contributors 205
Index 209
Figures
2.1 Intermediation as information synthesis: Role of the
entrepreneur in promoting coordination. 24
2.2 The market-making entrepreneur: Establishing a
distribution channel. 25
2.3 Leader of elite social group endorses integrity of
entrepreneur. 27
2.4 Role of social network in building trust to support
economic activity. 28
2.5 Role of social network in building mutual trust between a
producer and a market-making entrepreneur. 28
2.6 Stylized view of a competitive market intermediated by
entrepreneurs. 30
2.7 Vertical and horizontal communication in a market with
secret collusion between suppliers and learning between
consumers. 31
3.1 Innovation s pace. 43
6.1 Product 1 N. 101
6.2 Final-consumption market. 102
7.1 Average annual sales of Nordic family forestry-industry
fi rms in comparison with listed fi rms and cooperatives,
1945–2003. 125
8.1 Change in collaboration over time. 139
8.2 Share of innovations involving R&D collaboration
(excluding collaboration with customers). 146