01 Sep 2004 - 01 Feb 2008
Europe, Macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy, Private sector development, innovation and knowledge-based economy, Research

KEINS Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship: Innovation, Networks and Systems

Description:

Within the overall area of the Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE) a consortium of seven partners under the leadership of the Luigi Bocconi University focused on three types of KBE in Europe: start-up entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship and academic entrepreneurship. The project pursued five objectives: discussing and refining current concepts of KBE, exploring its relationship with innovation, defining the role of networks of alliances, information, finance and social ties, assessing KBE in different sectoral and national systems of innovation and producing policy recommendations. CASE expert participation in the project included Michal Gorzynski, Malgorzata Jakubiak and Rick Woodward. At two subsequent meetings held in 2005: February 3-4 (Milan) and October 13-14 (Lisbon) drafts of theoretical papers and early case studies were presented and discussed.

Project Summary, 4 December 2008: Knowledge-based enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe: Contributing to the diffusion of innovation rather than innovating by Richard Woodward

Sponsor:

6th EU Research Framework Programme