Economics of Innovation

As a result of globalization, strategies for investments in innovation capabilities have gained considerably in importance for businesses, research institutions and policymakers. Public policy has to provide conditions for investments in...

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The Dynamics of Standards

Edited by Tineke M. Egyedi, Knut Blind

This book addresses the new field of standards dynamics. It focuses in particular on the tension between standards and change. Standards are points of reference and should therefore be inherently stable (at least to a certain degree). Ho...

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Innovation in Low-Tech Firms and Industries

Edited by Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen, David Jacobson

It is a general understanding that the advanced economies are currently undergoing a fundamental transformation into knowledge-based societies. There is a firm belief that this is based on the development of high-tech industries. Corresp...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Software Technologies

Elad Harison

This book examines the effects of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), namely patents and copyrights, on innovation and technical change in information technologies. It provides new insights on the links between markets, technologies and...

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The Genesis of Innovation

Edited by Blandine Laperche, Dimitri Uzunidis, G. N. von Tunzelmann

The genesis and diffusion of innovation depends upon the density of the cognitive and market relationships among individuals, organisations and institutions at both the micro- and macro-economic level. By addressing the nature of these r...

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The Economics of Innovation Policy

Edited by Albert N. Link

For this invaluable collection, Professor Link has selected the most significant articles that have emerged in the last fifty years in the field of innovation policy. The first volume addresses the foundations of innovation policy and co...

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Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy

Edited by Timothy J. Foxon, Jonathan Köhler, Christine Oughton

This book shows that although innovations in energy systems represent a core contribution to achieving national and international energy policy goals, theoretical approaches to understanding innovation differ radically between separate d...

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Diversity in the Knowledge Economy and Society

Edited by Elias G. Carayannis, Aris Kaloudis, Åge Mariussen

The key message of this book is that heterogeneity should be seen as an intrinsic and indispensable element of knowledge systems. The authors address the concept of heterogeneity in a multi-disciplinary fashion, including perspectives...

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Systems of Innovation

Christopher Freeman

Books on innovation have proliferated in the last quarter of a century, during what the author describes as ‘the Schumpeterian Renaissance’. This volume provides an authoritative account of many of these new developments and represents t...

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The Economic Theory of Invention and Innovation

Edited by Albert N. Link

This comprehensive collection presents the classic articles in the economics of invention and innovation. It covers topics related to sources of inventive and innovative activity, including exogenous and endogenous innovation, with an em...

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Innovation and Economic Development

Edited by Lynn K. Mytelka

This wide-ranging collection approaches innovation and development with a focus upon the developing world and includes a number of articles from eminent scholars in developing countries. With papers ranging from 1973, the book provides a...

Hardback (2007)

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