Innovation Ecosystems: Increasing Competitiveness

ISBN-13: 9781108472463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 350 str.

Martin Fransman

Opis

Explains how innovation happens and which factors can help or hinder, by treating innovation as a systemic phenomenon, or ecosystem of players and processes.

Recenzje

'This text will be a valuable resource, especially for schools with academic programs focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship. This volume succeeds in conceptualizing innovation in a scholarly context and making connections with economic theory.' S. J. Chapman, Jr, Choice

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Contextualising innovation – the Schumpeterian-evolutionary approach to economic change; 3. 'National innovation systems', 'business ecosystems', and 'innovation ecosystems'; 4. The ICT innovation ecosystem; 5. Interview with Martin Fransman on innovation ecosystems; 6. How does innovation happen? – An ex ante perspective; 7. Who makes innovation happen? Is the entrepreneur becoming obsolete? Creating an organisation-level innovation ecosystem; 8. Innovation ecosystems and financial markets – the telecoms boom and bust 1996–2003; 9. Innovation ecosystems, new waves of industrialisation, and the implications for China; 10. Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, Money, and Innovation; 11. Conclusions.