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1. Introduction / Maureen McKelvey and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen -- 2. To boldly go...: characteristics of China's innovation policy / Enrico Deiaco and Carl Jeding -- 3. The role of intellectual property rights in innovation spaces: the cases of China and India / Marcus Holgersson -- 4. Technological competition in Chinese market: an investigation based upon patents / Xiangdong Chen, Xiaoqing Liu and Yong Wang -- 5. The role of customers in the development of the e-bike industry and a leading company in China / Jun Jin and Guangyu Cheng -- 6. Understanding innovation spaces through emerging multinational enterprises in China: an explorative case study of a Chinese wind turbine manufacturer / Dmitrij Slepniov, Astrid Heidemann Lassen, Stine Jessen Haakonsson and Maureen McKelvey -- 7. Manoeuvring global innovation spaces: an explorative case study of a Korean entrepreneurial venture in nanotechnology / Astrid Heidemann Lassen and Dmitrij Slepniov -- 8. The emergence of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship in China: four start-up companies in nanotechnology in Suzhou / Jun Jin, Zhengyi Zhang and Maureen McKelvey -- 9. The role of returnees in developing entrepreneurial ventures in high-tech sectors in China / Peilei Fan -- 10. Evolving global innovation networks of Indian pharmaceutical companies / Peter Kedron and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen -- 11. The emergence of Indonesian multinational enterprises / Teuku Arckyansyah Meraxa and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen -- 12. Tapping into Western technologies by Chinese multinationals: Geely's purchase of Volvo Cars and Huawei's hiring of Ericsson employees in Sweden / Ethan Gifford, Marcus Holgersson, Maureen McKelvey and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen -- 13. Foreign direct investment in R & D and the base of the pyramid: is a new space of innovation emerging in India? / Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Torsten Schunder and Evangelos Bourelos -- 14. Problem-framing in new innovation spaces: insights from software outsourcing / Rasmus Lema -- 15. The