Innovation economics : the race for global advantage / Robert D. Atkinson and Stephen J. Ezell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkinson, Robert D.

Contributor:

Ezell, Stephen J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Economic aspects--United States.

Technological innovations.

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Diffusion of innovations--United States.

Diffusion of innovations.

Industrial policy--United States.

Industrial policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 431 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Why America no longer leads the world in innovation, why we should be concerned, and what must be done about it This important book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations are making support for technology and innovation a central tenet of their economic strategies and policies, America lacks a robust innovation policy. What does this portend? Robert Atkinson and Stephen Ezell, widely respected economic thinkers, report on profound new forces that are shaping the global economy--forces that favor nations with innovation-based economies and innovation policies. Unless the United States enacts public policies to reflect this reality, Americans face the relatively lower standards of living associated with a noncompetitive national economy. The authors explore how a weak innovation economy not only contributed to the Great Recession but is delaying America's recovery from it and how innovation in the United States compares with that in other developed and developing nations. Atkinson and Ezell then lay out a detailed, pragmatic road map for America to regain its global innovation advantage by 2020, as well as maximize the global supply of innovation and promote sustainable globalization."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 The Race for Global Innovation Advantage

2 Explaining U.S. Economic Decline

3 Learning from the Wrong Master

4 Why Do So Many Refuse to See U.S. Structural Economic Decline?

5 What Are Innovation and Innovation Policy and Why Are They Important?

6 Crafting Innovation Policy to Win the Race

7 Cheating as a Way to Win the Race

8 Winning the Race for Innovation Advantage with the Eight "I's" of Innovation Policy

9 Why Don't We Have More Innovation and Innovation Policy?

10 Can Nations Overcome the Barriers to Innovation?

11 Creating a Robust Global Innovation System.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613883773

9781283571326

1283571323

9780300189117

0300189117

OCLC:

817809703