Learning for Innovation In the Global Knowledge Economy

This book is a major step forward in understanding the learning behaviour of clustered technology-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Drawing upon qualitative and quantitative research methods and sampling techniques, it identifies how learning for innovation is stimulated or inhibited. The reader is encouraged to consider:

• how the institutional context and local setting influence the learning behaviour and innovative capacity of high technology SMEs

• the evolutionary development of technological policies in the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN), and the scope of EU-ASEAN technological co-operation

• how regional SMEs network and collaborate with each other with regard to innovation

• whether common patterns of learning behaviour and co-operation are present within surveyed SMEs situated in the West of England M4/M5 corridors and the Singapore-Johor (Malaysia) cross-border area

• the principal factors that underpin innovative behaviour

• how to furth