Hi folks,
Here are the details of a new book edited by list members, which will
certainly be of interest to many other list members. It can be ordered from
Edward Elgar: http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/
Best wishes.
Joanne.
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Knowledge And Innovation In The New Service Economy
Edited by:
Birgitte Andersen, Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, Birkbeck
College, University of London, UK and Honorary Associate Fellow, ESRC Centre
for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), University of Manchester,
UK
Jeremy Howells, ESRC Senior Research Fellow, CRIC and Co-director, PREST,
University of Manchester, UK
Richard Hull, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Brunel, UK
Ian Miles, Professor of Technological Innovation and Social Change and
Co-director, CRIC and PREST, University of Manchester, UK
Joanne Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Economics, School of Social, Political
and Economic Sciences, University of Northumbria and Honorary Associate
Fellow, CRIC, University of Manchester, UK
Knowledge and innovation are key factors contributing to growth and
prosperity in the new service economy. This book presents original,
empirical and theoretical contributions to address the economic dimensions
of knowledge and the organisation of knowledge intensive activity through
specialised services. Specific analyses include:
* macro statistics to highlight the contribution of services to economic
activity
* firm level survey data to identify and consider client relations
* case studies of four innovation-oriented business services.
Contents:
1. Introducing the New Service Economy
2. Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy
3. The Contribution of Knowledge Intensive Services to Manufacturing
Industry
4. Competition and Innovation Amongst Knowledge Intensive and Other Service
Firms: Evidence from Germany
5. Web Services: Knowledge of the New
6. E-commerce: Servicing the New Economy
7. Environmental Services: Sustaining Knowledge
8. Computer Services: The Dynamics of a Knowledge Intensive Sector
9. Knowledge Management Practices and Innovation
10. Services, Knowledge and Intellectual Property
11. The Internationalisation of Knowledge-Intensive Business Service Firms
12. Outsourcing Novelty: The Externalisation of Innovative Activity
13. Services and Systems of Innovation 14. Intellectual Property Rights
Shaping Innovation in Services
15. Global Knowledge Systems in a Service Economy
16. Understanding the New Service Economy References
Contributors include: B. Andersen, M. Boden, E. Bolisani, K. Flanagan, C.
Hipp, J. Howells, R. Hull, I. Miles, J. Roberts, B.S. Tether, M. Tomlinson,
P. Windrum
UK Publication Hardback November 2000 c 328 pp 1 84064 572 5 £65.00
US Publication Hardback January 2001 $95.00
Published by Edward Elgar
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Dr Joanne Roberts
Contact details:
Until 15th December 2000:
Division of Economics
School of Social, Political and Economic Sciences
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Northumberland Building
Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 8ST . UK
Tel: +44 (0) 191 227 3931
Fax: +44 (0) 191 227 4654
Email: [log in to unmask]
>From 1st January 2001:
University of Durham Business School
Mill Hill Lane
Durham City
DH1 3LB. UK
Tel: +44 (0) 191 374 2211
Email: [log in to unmask]
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