Applied Studies: Adoption of Information Technology in National Institutional Systems -- An Empirical Analysis of the Institutional System's Effects on the Development of China's Personal Computer Industry-From Inertia to Innovation -- An Empirical Analysis of the Coevolution of China's Institutional System and Rapidly Growing PC Sector -- Institutional Context for IT Use in the Automotive Industry: A Case Study on the Market Leader in India's Passenger Vehicle Sector -- Information Technology and Changing Institutional Systems as They Shift from an Industrial to an Information Society: An Initial Comparative Analysis of the USA, Japan, and China -- Analyzing the Export Intensity of Electronics Firms in India -- Applied Studies: Institutional Systems, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Transfer and Learning -- Growth of Technology Incubators: An Evolutionary Perspective -- The Relationship between Universities of Professional Education and SMEs: Room for Improvement -- Small Biotechnology Industry and Institutional Transformation: A Case Study of The Netherlands.

The book offers an interesting blend of applied state-of-the-art studies of coevolutionary development of institutions, innovation diffusion and innovative entrepreneurship, not published anywhere else. It can firstly be classified as belonging to mainstream endogenous growth studies on the country level, and secondly, to mainstream evolutionary studies. What the themes in the book share is attention for institutional change in a frame of coevolutionary dynamics to elucidate differences over time and differences between countries in technological innovation and economic growth. The book contains solid applied work in this area and is mainly about information technology and electronics industry (for example, PC manufacturing); however, biotechnology is also included. In addition, the book has a wide geographic scope including a focus on the US, China, Japan, India and the Netherlands, as well as many cross-country comparisons. Part I (Adoption of Information Technology in National Institutional Systems) presents studies of historical development trajectories and/or country specific institutional circumstances of innovation diffusion. Part II (Institutional Systems, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Transfer and Learning) is devoted to the development of institutions, and policies and practice of technology transfer and utilization by companies, including an evolutionary growth path of technology incubators.