Innovation, Globalization and Firm Dynamics ― Lessons for Enterprise Policy

This book is about the relationship between firm dynamics, innovation and globalization, the processes that are essential for long term economic growth and welfare creation. This volume deals with these three issues in three sections titled respectively: entrepreneurship, new firm formation and growth; productivity-innovation-growthnexus; globalization, multinational firms and producers’ dynamics. The book presents new studies written by distinguished researchers in the field, who use state-of-the-art methodologies and extensive sources of firm- and plant-level longitudinal data to analyze and understand these major economic issues facing modern economies.

Anna Maria Ferragina is assistant professor of Economics at the University of Salerno, researcher of the Centre of Labour Economics and Political Economy (CELPE, University of Salerno) and member of the Board of Directors of the Forum Euromediterraneen des Instituts de Sciences Economiques (FEMISE)

Erol Taymaz is a Professor of Economics at Middle East Technical University , Ankara, Turkey

Kamil Yilmaz is a Professor of Economics at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey