Flexibility and stability in the innovating economy / edited by Maureen McKelvey and Magnus Holmen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McKelvey, Maureen D.

Holmen, Margnus.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Diffusion of innovations--Economic aspects.

Diffusion of innovations.

Industrial organization (Economic theory).

Evolutionary economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Interactions between business, technological, public policy, and organization processes are changing the way modern economies work. In this book the concept of 'change' is problematized in terms of flexibility and stability across these processes, examining the central issues of industrial dynamics, structural change, and transformation. It adopts a perspective of the economy that sees it as an inherently dynamic and complex system, consisting of diverse components and activities,which interact and change in different ways over time. This means placing an emphasis not only on economic transfor

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Why this book?; 1.3 Overview of chapters; 1.3.1 Chapters in Theme 1: experimenting and inertia; 1.3.2 Chapters in Theme 2: evolution and adaptation of structure; 1.3.3 Chapters in Theme 3: innovating and technological transformation; 1.4 Beyond this book; THEME 1: EXPERIMENTING AND INERTIA; 2 The New Craft Skills of Engineering: The Impact of Innovation Technology on Engineering Practice; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Changing nature of engineering practice and knowledge

2.3 Case studies2.4 Discussion and conclusions; 3 Innovative Opportunities and Dependencies: Illustrations from Mobile Communications; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Innovative opportunities; 3.3 Innovative opportunities in 3G and i-mode; 3.4 Dependencies in innovative opportunities; 3.5 Conclusions; 4 The Great Experiment: Public-Private Partnerships and Innovation in Design, Production, and Operation of Capital Goods in the UK; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Empirical and theoretical background; 4.3 Innovation in capital goods and repositioning for PPPs; 4.4 Discussion and conclusions

THEME 2: EVOLUTION AND ADAPTATION OF STRUCTURE5 Complexity, Evolution, and the Structure of Demand; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Consumption networks not production functions; 5.3 The economy is a complex rule-system; 5.4 The growth of demand and the growth of economies; 5.5 Correlated preferences; 5.6 Analysis of economic networks; 5.7 Orders of complexity; 5.8 Micro-meso-macro; 5.9 The complexity of consumption and demand; 5.10 Evolution and aggregate demand; 6 Self-Transformation, Self-Organization, and Evolutionary Adaptation in the Economic Process; 6.1 Introduction

6.2 Some evidence for structural adaptation6.3 Accounting for evolutionary adaptation; 6.4 The logistic principle; 6.5 Adaptation, complexity, and the problem of knowledge; 6.6 The correlation of knowing; 6.7 Conclusions; 7 Changing Boundaries of Firms in the Evolution of the Computer Industry: Towards a History-Friendly Model; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The conceptual background; 7.3 A brief discussion of the semiconductor and computer industries; 7.4 Some theoretical statements on the changing vertical boundaries of firms; 7.5 The model; 7.6. The simulations; 7.7. Conclusions

THEME 3: INNOVATING AND TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION8 The Effects of Technological Change on the Boundaries of Existing Firms; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Technological stability and the boundaries of the firm; 8.3 Technological change and the boundaries of the firm; 8.4 Conclusions; 9 Transitions, Transformations, and Reproduction: Dynamics in Socio-Technical Systems; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Multilevel perspective and types of change; 9.3 Case studies; 9.4 Conclusions and policy implications; 10 Analysing Flexibility and Stability in Co-evolutionary Processes; 10.1 Introduction

10.2 Transformation as involving novelty, destruction, or renewal?

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4356-2405-X

9786611154752

0-19-153736-5

1-281-15475-X

OCLC:

427507673