The challenge of remaining innovative : insights from twentieth-century American business
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The challenge of remaining innovative : insights from twentieth-century American business
(Innovation and technology in the world economy)
Stanford University Press, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-340) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Challenge of Remaining Innovative explores innovation as a complex phenomenon that may be organizational as well as technological, that operates both within firms and across the broader economy, and that involves matters not only of research and development, but also of marketing, design, and government relations. The contributors explore two main themes: the challenge of remaining innovative and the necessity of managing institutional boundaries in doing so.
The collection is organized into four parts, which move outward from individual firms; to networks or clusters of firms; to consultants and other intermediaries in the private economy who operate outside of the firms themselves; and finally to government institutions and politics. This scheme delineates a variety of ways in which entrepreneurship has persisted across the 20th century-and accentuates how ongoing organizational re-arrangement has contributed mightily to its sustained vitality.
Table of Contents
Contents List of Figures and Tablesxi Acknowledgmentsxiii Contributorsxv Introduction1 Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman Prologue: Reorganizing Innovation Introduction to the Prologue: Reorganizing Innovation000 Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman 1 The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpeterian Story? 000 Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Solokoff, Part I: Within Firms Introduction to Part I: Within Firms 000 Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman 2 Corning as Creative Responder: A Schumpeterian Interpretation of Disruptive Innovation 000 Margaret B. W. Graham 3 Probability Theory and the Challenge of Sustaining Innovation: Traffic Management at the Bell System, 1900-1929 000 Paul J. Miranti, Jr. 4 Rethinking the Invention Factory: Bell Laboratories in Perspective 000 Kenneth Lipartito Part II: Among Firms Introduction to Part II: Among Firms 000 Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman 5 Stanford University and Frederick Terman's Blueprint for Innovation in the Knowledge Economy 000 Stephen B. Adams 6 The Bold and the Foolhardy: Hurricanes and the Early Offshore Oil Industry 000 Joseph A. Pratt 7 Mementos: Looking Backwards at the Honda Motorcycle Case, 2003-1973 000 Christopher McKenna Part III: Firms and the State Introduction to Part III: Firms and the State 000 Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman 8 Unbundling IBM: Antitrust and the Incentives to Innovation in American Computing 000 Steven W. Usselman 9 Credit and the Mature Market for Automobiles 000 Sally H. Clarke Notes 000 Selected Bibliography 000 Index 000
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