Description |
1 online resource (x, 366 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
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Contents |
Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Western Canada: From Family Businesses to Multinationals -- Innovation Systems -- Regional Systems of Innovation as Modern R&D Entrepots: The Case of the Saskatoon Biotechnology Cluster -- Techmaps: A Tool for Understanding Social Capital for Technological Innovation at a Regional Level -- The Alberta Innovation System: The Main Players and Suggested Research Priorities -- Cooperative Mercantilism: Public Policy Dilemmas in Managing the Generation and Application of Ideas Toward Economic Development -- Entrepreneurship and Innovation -- Developing Market Economies: The Aboriginal Case in Northwest British Columbia -- The Link Between Innovation and the Use of Human Resources in British Columbian Enterprises -- Networking Support to Innovative Young Firms: Pathways of Knowledge -- Innovations in Entrepreneurial Support Programs -- Lessons from Successful Innovations in Entrepreneurial Support Programming -- Developing Entrepreneurs in a Hybrid Management and Entrepreneurship MBA: A Case Study in Calgary -- A Preliminary Assessment of the Effectiveness of Project-Based Assistance to Medical Entrepreneurs at the University of Calgary -- Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Management in Family Businesses -- Investing with Families in Business: A Venture Capitalist's View -- Your Old Men Will Dream Dreams, Your Young Men Will See Visions: A Conceptualization of Innovation in Family Firms -- Family and Non-Family Priorities in Family Firms: Preliminary Evidence -- Executive Pay Practices in Family-Controlled Firms in Canada: A Preliminary Study -- Exploring the Role of Trust in Family Firm Governance -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
Summary |
A collection of articles by Canadian scholars that examines the nature of the entrepreneurial process at the national and regional levels. The book presents emerging research and scholarly perspectives on the roles of innovation, entrepreneurship, and family business in western Canadian economic development. Includes conceptual pieces, theory-building exercises based on field research, literature reviews, large-scale empirical studies, and presentations of new methodological advancements that further research in the field of business |
Notes |
Papers from the third InnoCom conference at the Faculty of Management of the University of Calgary, April 27-28 2000 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Research, Industrial -- Canada, Western -- Congresses
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Entrepreneurship -- Canada, Western -- Congresses
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Strategic alliances (Business) -- Canada, Western -- Congresses
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Canada, Western -- Congresses
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Family-owned business enterprises -- Canada, Western -- Congresses
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Technology.
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Family-owned business enterprises
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Economic history
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Entrepreneurship
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Research, Industrial
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Strategic alliances (Business)
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
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SUBJECT |
Canada, Western -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
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Subject |
Western Canada
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Chrisman, James J
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Holbrook, J. Adam, 1946-
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Chua, Jess H
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ISBN |
0585440220 |
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9780585440224 |
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1552380750 |
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9781552380758 |
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1280945834 |
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9781280945830 |
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9781552383735 |
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1552383733 |
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