Innovation and institutions : a multidisciplinary review of the study of innovation systems / edited by Steven Casper and Frans van Waarden

By:

Casper, Steven, [editor]

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Material type:

TextSeries: New horizons in the economics of innovationPublication details: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA Edward Elgar [2005]Description: x, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

1843762110

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DDC classification:

338/.064 22

Contents:

Introduction : scanning literature on institutions, organizations and innovation / Steven Casper and Frans van Waarden -- Problems of measuring innovative performance / Brigitte Unger -- National innovation systems / Marius Meeus and Leon Oerlemans -- Organizations and innovation : contributions from organizational sociology and administrative science / Jerald Hage -- Innovation, organizational learning and institutional economics / Bart Nooteboom -- Innovation strategies, interactive learning and innovation networks / Marius Meeus and Leon Oerlemans -- Varieties of capitalism : comparative institutional approaches to economic organization and innovation / Steven Casper, J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Richard Whitley -- A prototypical institution : law, regulation and innovation / Frans van Waarden -- Conclusion : questions for further research / Frans van Waarden and Steven Casper.

Summary: 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 countries make radical innovations but fail to successfully market them, whilst others making incremental innovations have more commercial success.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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 countries make radical innovations but fail to successfully market them, whilst others making incremental innovations have more commercial success.