The challenge of remaining innovative : insights from twentieth-century American business / edited by Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarke, Sally H.

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.

Usselman, Steven W.

Series:

Innovation and technology in the world economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--United States--History--20th century.

Technological innovations.

Research, Industrial--United States--History--20th century.

Research, Industrial.

Business enterprises--Technological innovations--United States--History--20th century.

Business enterprises.

Business enterprises--Technological innovations.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xviii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, [2009]

Contents:

The rise and decline of the independent inventor : a Schumpeterian story? / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Solokoff

Corning as creative responder : a Schumpeterian interpretation of disruptive innovation / Margaret B.W. Graham

Probability theory and the challenge of sustaining innovation : traffic management at the Bell System, 1900-1929 / Paul J. Miranti Jr.

Rethinking the invention factory : Bell Laboratories in perspective / Kenneth Lipartito

Stanford University and Frederick Terman's blueprint for innovation in the knowledge economy / Stephen B. Adams

The bold and the foolhardy : hurricanes and the early offshore oil industry / Joseph A. Pratt

Mementos : looking backwards at the Honda Motorcycle case, 2003-1973 / Christopher McKenna

Unbundling IBM : antitrust and the incentives to innovation in American computing / Steven W. Usselman

Credit and the mature market for automobiles / Sally H. Clarke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-340) and index.

ISBN:

9780804758925

0804758921

OCLC:

236117302