BOOK TIP: The future of accountants and auditors – what does it look like?
Digitalization, climate challenges and tighter regulations have long put pressure on the accounting and auditing industry. And for smaller businesses, adapting has been particularly difficult. So how can SMEs in the sector meet the new demands of a rapidly changing world?
BOOK TIP: The challenges of patents today
What role do patents play in a digital world? How does a pandemic affect patent strategies and collaborations? In the anthology A Modern Guide to Patents: Challenges of Patenting in the 21st Century, researchers and experts from the business community share their experiences and insights on the functioning and evolution of patents in the 21st century.
BOOK TIP: The totality of innovation processes (Open access)
The Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management provides a broad and up-to-date overview of innovation management. Over 100 experts contribute articles highlighting both established and emerging issues – from business models and ecosystems to impact investing, radical creativity and dark innovation.
BOOK TIP: Innovation is the solution to everything – or is it?
Why did innovation become such a central ideal, and what happens when the hallelujahs surrounding the concept fade? In his book Every American an Innovator, cultural historian Matthew Wisnioski explores how innovation culture emerged long before the tech boom.
BOOK TIP | Many paths to entrepreneurship
The vast majority of entrepreneurs are far from Silicon Valley tech geniuses. In Unstoppable Entrepreneurs, Professor Lori Rosenkopf offers a more nuanced view of who can become an entrepreneur. With examples from disruptive startups as well as intrapreneurs within large organizations, she shows that the paths to entrepreneurship are many – and open to more […]
BOOK TIP | The entrepreneurial state questioned – again
The book Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy: Questioning the Mission Economy brings together a number of researchers who are critical of the mission-oriented innovation policy that aims to solve major societal challenges.
BOOK TIP | How regulation affects innovation
In the research anthology Handbook of Innovation and Regulation, 31 researchers from Europe and the United States describe how regulations in different areas affect innovation. Several entries are Swedish.
BOOK TIP | Policy development for innovation capacity
Sweden and the rest of Europe face many major challenges ahead, including demographic, geopolitical, technological and climate-related ones. According to the authors, ensuring continued growth and prosperity requires more technological development and new ways of dealing with complex issues.
BOOK TIPS | The importance of ecosystem thinking
What is the impact of entrepreneurship on the world’s economies? The editors of The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: A Global Perspective believe that we can only understand it by looking at entrepreneurship from an ecosystem perspective. The book pays great attention to methods for measuring and evaluating the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Elsewhere, we can read about the ‘entrepreneurship […]
BOOK TIPS | Innovation Competence
We already know that innovation processes are slow, collective and social. The book Encouraging Innovation – Cognition, Education, and Implementation explores this further.