Innovation studies : evolution and future challenges / [edited by] Jan Fagerberg, Ben R. Martin, Esben Sloth Andersen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andersen, Esben Sloth.

Fagerberg, Jan.

Martin, Ben R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Technology transfer--Economic aspects.

Technology transfer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Innovation is increasingly recognized as a vitally important social and economic phenomenon worthy of serious research study. The book, written by leading contributors to the field, examines the state of the art and achievements in the relatively new field of Innovation Studies, as well as what future challenges lie ahead.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; 1. Innovation Studies: Towards a New Agenda; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Understanding Innovation: A Brief Historical Sketch; 1.3. An Evolving Agenda; 1.4. Achievements and Challenges; 1.5. Towards a New Agenda?; Part I: Evolution, Developments, and Key Issues; 2. Innovation Studies: A Personal Interpretation of 'The State of the Art'; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Learning from Project Research; 2.3. The Theoretical Core of Innovation Studies; 2.4. Innovation Studies: Drawing the Boundaries to Adjacent Fields

2.5. Opening Up the Borders of Innovation Studies2.6. The Future of Innovation Studies; 3. Innovation, Work Organization, and Systems of Social Protection; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Work Organization and Organizational Design; 3.3. National Systems of Innovation and Competence Building: What Are the Relevant Institutions?; 3.4. Regions and Nations: The Need for a Multi-Level Governance Framework; 3.5. Policies for Organizational Change and Innovation; 4. Innovation Systems and Policy for Development in a Changing World; 4.1. Looking at the Question

4.2. The Paradigm Shift and Its Effects on the Conditions of Innovation for and by the Poor (and the Weak)4.3. The Big Moving Picture; 4.4. Does (or Should) Evolutionary Economics also Evolve?; 4.5. In Conclusion; 5. Innovation, Evolution, and Economics: Where We Are and Where We Should Go; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Coordination and Change; 5.3. Towards an Alternative Interpretation: The Economy as a Complex Evolving System; 5.4. The Structure of Technological Knowledge and the Process of Technological Innovation

5.5. Micro-Foundations: Cognition, Behaviours, and Learning in Complex Evolving Environments5.6. Towards a Soundly Micro-Founded Evolutionary Macroeconomics; 5.7. Conclusions; 6. Is Innovation Always Good?; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Innovation, Planned Obsolescence, and Unsustainable Consumption Growth; 6.3. From Innovation for the Tip to the Bottom of the Income Pyramid; 6.4. From Financial Innovations to Systemic Failure; 6.5. Conclusions; Part II: Challenges for Innovation Studies in the Years Ahead; 7. Innovation Studies at Maturity; 7.1. Introduction

7.2. The Argument for Innovation Studies as Normal Science7.3. Pedagogical and Institutional Implications of our Field as Normal Science; 7.4. Contemporary Issues and the Challenges to our Field; 7.5. Summary; 8. Innovation Studies: An Emerging Agenda; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. What have been the Main Achievements of Innovation Studies over Previous Decades?; 8.3. The Challenges; 8.4. Conclusions; 9. Reflections on the Study of Innovation and on Those Who Study It; 10. Smart and Inclusive Growth: Rethinking the State's Role and the Risk-Reward Relationship; 10.1. Innovation and Inequality

10.2. Innovation and the State-Beyond Fixing Market Failures and Building Systems of Innovation

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-150985-X

OCLC:

865849246