The Architecture of Innovation : The Economics of Creative Organizations

ISBN-13: 9780199639892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

Josh Lerner

Opis

Josh Lerner, leading Harvard Business School professor, explores what lies behind successful innovation, and what managers and companies can learn from successful and unsuccessful cases. He combines both analysis of in-house innovation in corporate research labs, with more finance based venture capital investment in innovation.

O autorze

Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Areas. He co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research's Productivity, Research, and Innovation Program and serves as co-editor of their publication, Innovation Policy and the Economy. He founded and runs the Private Capital Research Institute, a non-profit devoted to encouraging data access to and research about venture capital and private equity. His research examines the structure and role of venture capital and private equity organizations, in books such as The Venture Capital Cycle, The Money of Invention, and Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and policies towards intellectual property protection, and how they impact firm strategies in high-technology industries, as discussed in Innovation and Its Discontents and The Comingled Code.