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Focusing on fresh business development in science and technology, this book highlights the European challenge on cooperation as an asset in initiating techno-ventures and encouraging them to survive and flourish. It brings culture and psychology together in this context of the nascent technopreneur using even psychoanalysis as a research method

1. Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture, a matter of interaction between technology, progress and economic growth? : an introduction -- 2. Conceptualizing innovation management and culture in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) : an exploratory study of organization-specific critical success factors -- 3. Knowledge management, institutions and professional cultures in engineering consulting services : the case of Hong Kong -- 4. Scientometrics and the evaluation of European integration -- 5. Schumpeter's theory of economic development revisited -- 6. Skunk works : a sign of failure, a sign of hope? -- 7. Entrepreneurship and the design process : the paradox of innovation in a routine design process -- 8. Culture's role in entrepreneurship : self-employment out of dissatisfaction -- 9. Towards cooperation between European start-ups : the position of the French -- Dutch and German entrepreneurial and innovative engineer -- 10. Multi-path system emergence : an evolutionary framework to analyse process innovation.

Pt. 1. The role of the individual versus that of the institution -- Pt. 2. The econo-geographic aspects of emergence, cooperation and survival -- Pt. 3. The cultural levels of nation, gender, profession, sector and region in emergence, cooperation and survival.

Case study based literature on relationship development presents in-depth information on contextual factors in relationship development. However, little quantitative evidence is available about key aspects of buyer-supplier relationships in each stage of its development, such as the level of trust/commitment, buyer's and supplier's dependence. The study will try to fill this gap by identifying and quantifying these aspects from the buyer's perspective in each development stage. A comprehensive survey among 238 Dutch purchasing professionals provides evidence on how these characteristics of relationships change when relationships develop over time. The results largely confirm the hypotheses, which stem from the extant literature about organizational dependence and trust/commitment. A notable finding is that the buyer perceives to be dependent on the supplier, even in a desirable relationship. Managerial implications are that: (1) industrial marketers should be aware that professional purchasers feel dominated by them, even in relationships that are positively evaluated and therefore desirable in the view of the buyer; and (2) that purchasers should be aware that dependence implies vulnerability, even when the relationship is still developing in an otherwise desirable way.