ABSTRACT
The chapters in this volume draw on business history, alongside the literatures of entrepreneurship, innovation and networks, to refl ect the experience of innovation in Europe in the twentieth century. America is often used as a bench mark for studies of innovation in large-scale, technologically intensive fi rms. We know considerably less about models of innovation that consider comparative empirical evidence from heterogeneous European countries and regions. Insights are drawn from small-and medium-sized fi rms, from managerial and organizational innovation, from innovation in ‘traditional’ sectors such as consumer-goods industries and from service innovation.
