This book targets the key issues of both research and practice in innovation and strategic management fields and is regarded as one of the important works explaining enterprises from the innovation system perspective. The book is based on the existing literature involving national innovation system, regional innovation system, and industrial/sectional innovation system and reviews intra-organizational innovation system researches and inter-organizational innovation ecosystem literature. Ac...

Based on a new perspective, this book explores the theory of internationalization of technological innovation in four aspects, namely strategy, organization, resource allocation and environment, and analyzes the development rules and key points of management in the internationalization of technological innovation for Chinese firms. On the basis of theoretical and empirical studies, this book proposes an evolutionary model of the internationalization of technological innovation. It is hoped...

This book is a new exploration of the paradigm of innovation with Chinese characteristics in the context of a new era. Based on the evolution of innovation paradigm theories at domestic and international level, the book initiates a dialogue between Eastern and Western innovation theories. The book proposes "holistic innovation" which is defined as an open, collaborative, and total innovation under the guidance of strategy, in order to make effective allocation of resources. This book furth...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Yangtze River system and its water resources development and management. From the perspectives of geology, hydrology, zoology, ecology, it discusses the Yangtze River’s geological history and aquatic environments, analyses the endangered species along the river basin, and reviews the effects of human hydrolytic activities on its ecosystem. By studying the history of Yangtze River system and its water resources development, it provides insi...

這是一部文學小說。除了真實的歷史事件，所有人名及故事均屬虛構。故事發生於二十世紀的後半部，延伸四十餘年，跨越亞美兩洲。1949 年末，四歲的蘭跟隨母親及姊弟自中國大陸來到台灣與父親重聚。她在物質微薄但愛心滿溢的環境裡成長。大學畢業後，她到美國的 Cornell康乃爾大學繼續攻讀?究所。在那裡和一群同住一屋的五位男性研究生結為好友，他們之間的關係及友誼為她帶來意料之外的苦難及考驗，他們的聰明才智無法避免一個充滿了悲劇的人生。這是一部對人際關係及情感深入探討的文學小說，同時也揭發了多項社會問題。王金城醫師，1970年畢業於國立台灣大學醫學院醫科，1971年底取得Purdue 大學生物碩士學位。她獲有美國小兒科，臨床遺傳學科，及細胞遺傳學科三種醫師專科委員會認證資格。王醫師從事遺傳學工作逾三十年，她在美國科學期刊上發表多項科學文章，也為一本遺傳學參考書著作兩章有關細胞遺傳學的專題解說。2014年九月退休後，開始追尋她終生的寫作興趣。2015年六月出版第一本英文小說 "The Triumphant Life – A Sto...

The Perfect Crime. One fine morning, math teacher Zhang Dongsheng pushes his wealthy relatives off the observation deck of Sanminshan National Park. Everything is calculated to the last detail. The police deemed it an accident.Close people. Zhu Chaoyang is the best student in the school. Because of his hunger for knowledge, Zhu is endlessly lonely. Everything changes when his childhood friend Ding Hao and his baby sister Pupu unexpectedly return to his life. They have escaped from ...

This edited volume explores the evolving practices and essential role of health and science journalists as they cover topics like conflict, displacement, and global pandemics. Amid a changing media landscape and new communication technologies, journalists in various countries report facing similar key challenges, stressors, and threats to professionalism. Contributors identify and explore these shared challenges, including funding cuts, unrealistic expectations for productivity, public mis...

The chapters in the book focus on recent developments in the field of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. It is structured in three parts. The focus is on innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems, digital technologies and innovation, as well as responses to pandemics resulting from external shocks.Carefully selected on the basis of relevance and rigor, the chapters in the book take the readers through various trending research topics.Contents:

This book summarizes the recent advances in applications of starch in state-of-the-art drug carriers (hydrogel, micro- and nano-particulate carriers) with stimulus-responsive and target-specific properties. It also highlights the role of starch and its derivatives in transmucosal administration to improve the bioavailability of drugs. Further, it outlines the principles of effective, advanced, starch-based drug delivery systems and illustrates how these principles are key to the developmen...

Innovation is widely recognized as a major source of modern productivity growth. Indeed, it is seen as constituting a central process of economic advancement in industrialized countries. Despite this, a considerable gap still exists in knowledge and technological capability between industrialized countries and the more dynamic developing countries such as China. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are a major contributor to China's economy and SME's contribution to China's GDP is clo...

Focussing on proven techniques for most real-world data sets, this book presents an overview of the analysis of health data involving a geographic component, in a way that is accessible to any health scientist or student comfortable with large data sets and basic statistics, but not necessarily with any specialized training in geographic information systems (GIS). Providing clear, straightforward explanations with worldwide examples and solutions, the book describes applications of GIS in ...

This book aims to answer the key question facing China in building an innovative country: What kind of indigenous innovation path with Chinese characteristics should be taken? This book conducts an in-depth analysis of the indigenous innovation path with Chinese characteristics from two dimensions: path evolution and level (enterprise, industry, region, and country). It puts forward the leading path of innovation with Chinese characteristics and also offers policy suggestions.