Collaborative Entrepreneurship : How Communities of Networked Firms Use Continuous Innovation to Create Economic Wealth

Anticipating the future environment of business, Collaborative Entrepreneurship discusses a revolutionary new competitive strategy of continuous innovation that fulfills the need for efficient provision of a constant stream of new products, services, and markets. The book explains how firms can build a collaborative community within which they can freely share in the creation of wealth through innovation with the assurance that the wealth they create will be equitably distributed.

Today, the ability of firms to innovate is restricted by barriers both inside the firm and within their existing markets―barriers that produce limited knowledge utilization and incremental innovations. Collaborative Entrepreneurship describes how these barriers can be overcome so that shared knowledge can drive continuous, sustained innovation across a network of firms and markets.

Raymond E. Miles is Professor Emeritus in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He has consulted widely, served as a member of boards of directors, and is an active participant in his local community. Grant Miles is Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at the University of North Texas. He has taught a variety of management topics to both students and managers in the United States and internationally. Charles C. Snow is the Mellon Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University. He is Chairman of the Department of Management and Organization, and has taught students and executives in over 25 countries.