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Title Innovation and entrepreneurship in Western Canada : from family businesses to multinationals / edited by James J. Chrisman, J. Adam D. Holbrook, Jess H. Chua
Published Calgary, Alta. : University of Calgary Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 366 pages) : illustrations
Series CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
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
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Subject Research, Industrial -- Canada, Western -- Congresses
Entrepreneurship -- Canada, Western -- Congresses
Strategic alliances (Business) -- Canada, Western -- Congresses
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Canada, Western -- Congresses
Family-owned business enterprises -- Canada, Western -- Congresses
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Technology.
Family-owned business enterprises
Economic history
Entrepreneurship
Research, Industrial
Strategic alliances (Business)
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
SUBJECT Canada, Western -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
Subject Western Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Chrisman, James J
Holbrook, J. Adam, 1946-
Chua, Jess H
ISBN 0585440220
9780585440224
1552380750
9781552380758
1280945834
9781280945830
9781552383735
1552383733