Understanding Innovation in Emerging Economic Spaces

’Recent decades have seen an exciting but somewhat perplexing proliferation of concepts describing innovation processes in space. This volume does an impressive job of evaluating this panoply of concepts and applying them to sectors rarely covered and places rarely visited by existing studies. As a diverse set of methodologically rigorous and richly illustrated studies, it will make an engaging read for students and scholars of innovation.’ Dariusz Wójcik, Oxford University, UK ’While research interest in certain emerging economies is still enormous, scholars' attention with respect to several Central and Eastern European countries has waned considerably. That is one reason why this book, an exception to the trend, is worth reading. The second reason is its topic: an analysis of innovation from various angles in a part of the world which was expected to become highly successful on the basis of the quality of its human capital at the beginning of the transformation in 1989. The third reason is its admitted heterogeneity in terms of its methodological approaches, ranging from pure quantitative analysis to case studies, a mix which can be considered a rare species in today's literature.’ Magdolna Sass, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary