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The Past and Future of America’s Economy
Robert D. Atkinson
Robert Atkinson examines this process of change over the past 150 years and explores the responses of people and institutions. The book then analyzes today’s New Economy, including the new information technology system, and effects on ma...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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Innovation and Institutions
Edited by Steven Casper, Frans van Waarden
Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some co...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Crisis of Innovation in Water and Wastewater
Duncan A. Thomas, Roger R. Ford
This significant new book highlights a little acknowledged but potentially catastrophic crisis of innovation in the global water sector, which institutions and industries are frighteningly ill-equipped to tackle or even accept. It sugges...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Technological Transitions and System Innovations
Frank W. Geels
This important book addresses how long term and large scale shifts from one socio-technical system to another come about, using insights from evolutionary economics, sociology of technology and innovation studies. These major changes inv...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Learning in Technological Innovation
Robin Williams, James Stewart, Roger Slack
This book explores the innovation processes involved in the application and use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) at work and in everyday life. These are analysed through an unparalleled set of 23 European case studie...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Technology, Knowledge and the Firm
Edited by Ken Green, Marcela Miozzo, Paul Dewick
There is a long-standing tradition of research that highlights the importance of differences in the organizational and technological capabilities of firms and their effect on economic performance. This book expands on this theme by explo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Foreign Firms, Technological Capabilities and Economic Performance
Rajah Rasiah
This book employs novel techniques to compare technological capabilities and economic performance in seven countries at varying stages of industrial development: Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, South Africa and Uganda. Th...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability
Edited by Boelie Elzen, Frank W. Geels, Ken Green
This book considers two main questions: how do system innovations or transitions come about and how can they be influenced by different actors, in particular by governments. The authors identify the theories which can be used to conceptu...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Innovation, Growth and Social Cohesion
Bengt-Åke Lundvall
Written by the scholar who, together with Chris Freeman, first introduced the concept of the innovation system, this book brings the literature an important step forward. Based upon extraordinarily rich empirical material, it shows how a...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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European Policies for a Knowledge Economy
Maria João Rodrigues
European Policies for a Knowledge Economy explores the information society and research and education policies which are being combined to build a stronger knowledge base, and enhance the growth potential of Europe via economic reforms, ... -
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Local Enterprises in the Global Economy
Edited by Hubert Schmitz
This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Lati...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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Creative Knowledge Environments
Edited by Sven Hemlin, Carl Martin Allwood, Ben R. Martin
Although there is an ever increasing demand for new technology and innovations in the economy and society in general, we currently know little about the conditions for stimulating creativity in relation to research and innovative activit...eBook:Find out more$40.00