"Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment offers an important new cross-disciplinary approach to one of the most important problems in modern economics, creating employment and economic growth. Presenting original theoretical and empirical research by leading experts in an accessible style, it will be vital reading for policy professionals as well as researchers and students in disciplines such as knowledge management, industrial or ..."
"This collection of essays is based on the 1994 F. de Vries lectures held at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, March 1994. The authors in this volume discuss the changing role of small firms in the modern economy from different angles. Bo Carlsson pays attention to the introduction of flexible automation. He explains that this change of technology has resulted in a decrease of the size of firms. Zoltan Acs argues that small firms play a ..."