Format:
Online-Ressource (296 S.)
ISBN:
9780191799808
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
How Nations Innovate compares how affluent capitalist economies differ in their patterns of technological innovation. Building on the 'varieties of capitalism' literature, this book goes beyond the traditional focus on 'radical versus incremental innovation' in existing scholarship, and takes the comparison of capitalism to an entirely new set of questions around technological innovation. For example, which type of capitalism engages in job-threatening innovation? Whose innovation widens income inequality? Whose innovation raises productivity? Which type of capitalism has more effective financial markets for innovation? Whose innovators emphasize 'control' rather than 'flexibility' during innovation? By addressing these questions, the author demonstrates that the way nations innovate often has deep, and sometimes counter-intuitive, implications for how they compare in many areas of socio-economic performance. For example, although venture capital is most active in Anglo-Saxon economies, it seems that venture-capital performance in stimulating innovation is also poorest in precisely these countries
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198735847
Additional Edition:
Druckausg.: Huo, Jingjing, 1977 - How nations innovate Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2015 ISBN 9780198735847
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0198735847
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Nation
;
Innovationspotenzial
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198735847.001.0001