Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management - Independent Innovation Album (Issue 2)

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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management is a professional research series on innovation and entrepreneurship management sponsored by the Center for Technological Innovation at Tsinghua University. This series publishes high-quality theoretical, empirical, case study, review, and commentary papers on technological innovation and entrepreneurship management, encouraging and promoting multidisciplinary and multi-perspective research on specific innovation management issues. The series covers topics such as micro-process management of technological innovation, research and development management, new product development and marketing, entrepreneurship management and venture capital, commercialization of new technologies, project evaluation, science and technology policies, national innovation systems, regional science and technology development, and more. It is suitable for researchers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship management. This issue is a special feature on independent innovation, providing systematic conceptual interpretations of independent innovation, in-depth discussions on its theoretical foundations, and elaborating on the importance and challenges of independent innovation from various perspectives. These include technological learning and catch-up in late-developing countries, the development and diffusion of generic technologies in industries, the relationship between breakthrough technological innovation opportunities and independent innovation, the relationship between intellectual property and independent innovation, the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and independent innovation, the relationship between industrial innovation systems and independent innovation, complex technologies and independent innovation, and the relationship between national economic and technological security and innovation. The issue also discusses the possibility of independent innovation by examining the phenomenon of national technological take-off.