Innovation, Governance and Entrepreneurship: How Do They Evolve in Middle Income Countries? : New Concepts, Trends and Challenges

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This book analyses the effects of technological development, innovation, entrepreneurship and governance in middle income countries, such as Turkey, in detail. How to best practise innovation and entrepreneurship, which many researchers and policy makers believe to be the main drivers of economic growth and development, has become a fiercely-debated topic. The contributors to this volume consider economic, social and institutional dimensions of innovative thinking, entrepreneurial activity and governance, and investigate both theoretically and empirically how these factors should contribute to the uptake of new technology and the global performance of middle income countries. By offering country specific examples, and by comparing high income and middle income countries, this edited collection presents a comprehensive analysis of innovation, entrepreneurial growth and development outside the vacuum of high income economies, which has traditionally received substantially more scholarly attention. Read more... Abstract: This book analyses the effects of technological development, innovation, entrepreneurship and governance in middle income countries, such as Turkey, in detail. How to best practise innovation and entrepreneurship, which many researchers and policy makers believe to be the main drivers of economic growth and development, has become a fiercely-debated topic. The contributors to this volume consider economic, social and institutional dimensions of innovative thinking, entrepreneurial activity and governance, and investigate both theoretically and empirically how these factors should contribute to the uptake of new technology and the global performance of middle income countries. By offering country specific examples, and by comparing high income and middle income countries, this edited collection presents a comprehensive analysis of innovation, entrepreneurial growth and development outside the vacuum of high income economies, which has traditionally received substantially more scholarly attention Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Introduction (Sefer Sener, Stefan Schepers)....Pages 1-9 Innovation Ecosystem Development: A Necessary Instrument to Escape the Mid-Income Trap (Stefan Schepers)....Pages 11-34 Is Innovation Conducive to Economic Growth? The Case of Central and Eastern European Countries (Sefer Sener, Cigdem Borke Tunali)....Pages 35-51 The Dynamic Function of Innovative Entrepreneurship in Evolutionary Economics for Middle-Income Countries (Sefer Sener, Volkan Hacioglu)....Pages 53-78 Collaborative Governance: Working Through Misaligned Interests (Nada Kakabadse, Andrew Kakabadse)....Pages 79-94 Entrepreneurship and Ethics: Examples of Social Entrepreneurship in Turkey and Selected Middle-Income Countries (Selva Staub, Zeliha Tekin)....Pages 95-114 An Empirical Analysis of the Macroeconomic Dynamics of Innovation (Cigdem Borke Tunali)....Pages 115-132 The Importance of Innovation in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Turkish Experience (Kadir Tuna)....Pages 133-146 Designing an Innovative School: Organisational Learning, Educational Leadership and School Improvement (Hanifi Parlar)....Pages 147-173 Effects of Innovation and Financial Performance on Companies in the Middle Income European Countries (Mustafa Yurttadur)....Pages 175-194 SWOT Analysis of the Turkish Economy in the Context of Innovation from the Perspective of the Business World, Academics and Government Executives: A Comparative Analysis of Middle-Income Countries in Terms of Their Innovation Capacities (Sedat Murat, Kadir Tuna, Volkan Hacıoğlu)....Pages 195-212 Back Matter ....Pages 213-216