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ISBN 10: 0761970231
ISBN 13: 9780761970231
Author: Dr John Howells
`The book provides a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers... In particular, it provides a good introduction to broader aspects of the field of innovation for researchers based within the engineering and science traditions′ - Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management `Howells has synthesised a broad range of sources with considerable insight to provide the first sophisticated single volume on innovation that draws on economics, sociology, law and from the history of science and technology. By setting innovation in social and institutional context, he convincingly shows how firms and markets shape and can be shaped by the decisions of managers and entrepreneurs. I will certainly be using this book as a central text for my Masters degree teaching on innovation management, management of technology and related topics′ - Jonathan Liebenau, London School of Economics and Columbia University `A great strength of the book is the extensive and detailed integration of rich case study analyses into the main flow of the argument. Many apparently well known cases are revisited and critically assessed to draw clear and often contrary to popular belief lessons. This is a highly original and commendable feature of this text. It provides an unusually strong integration between theory and examples. And there is no doubt of the relevance of the examples: they are not inserted as an afterthought, but are intrinsically part of the development of the thinking′ - Professor James Fleck, Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group, University of Edinburgh Management School This book analyses a range of social contexts in which human decisions shape technology in the market economy. It comprises a critical review of both a select research literature and in-depth historical studies. Material is drawn from many social science disciplines to inform the reader of the reality of taking decisions on innovation. The chapters cover: - The social context for individual acts of creative insight - The development of the technology-market relationship - The management of R&D and technological standards - Technological competition - The role of institutions of finance in innovation - The reciprocal relationship between intellectual property law and technological innovation. - The role of technological skills and regimes of technological education in innovation. - An introduction to the role of the state in maintaining the innovative capacity of the private sector.
1 Technological Innovation
Variety in the Meaning Attributed to Invention, Innovation and Technology and the Organisation of this Book
Use of the Technology Complex
Technology, its Uses and the Institutions of the Market Economy
Implications for the Structure of this Book
Some Contrasting Conceptual Approaches to the Representation of Innovation
Conclusion
Notes
2 Invention, Science, R&D and Concepts of Use and Market
Invention as the Creative Contribution to Innovation
The Role of Existing Patterns of Use in Invention – Reference Markets for Innovation
The Management of Industrial R&D
Rise of the Organisational Innovation of the R&D Department
Concluding Comments
Notes
3 Patterns in Technological Development and the Creation of Technological Standards
Paths of Development, Increasing Returns to Scale and Dominant Designs
Increasing Returns and ‘Path Dependency’ – a Process for ‘Lock-in’ to Specific Designs
Managing Neutral Standards through the Recruitment of Competitors – VHS Versus Betamax Video Recorders
Conclusions on Standards and Paths of Development
Notes
4 Competition and Innovation as Substitution Threat
Competitive Scenarios of Innovation
Creative Destruction and Firm Response
Conflict between Competition Policy and Innovation Policy
Concluding Comments – and Does the Study of Innovation Necessarily Follow a ‘Chicago’ or ‘Schumpeterian’ School of Thought?
Notes
5 Intellectual Property Law and Innovation
The Patent Institution as an Aid to Innovation
Mutual Adaptation of Intellectual Property Law and Technology
Concluding Comments on Innovation and the Patent Institution
Notes
6 Finance – Techniques, Institutions and Innovation
Development and Internal Financial Evaluation
Development and the Market for Corporate Control
Development and Financial Institutions External to the Firm
Conclusion
Notes
7 Innovation and the Organisation of Technical Expertise and Work
Explaining Spectacular Achievements in Japanese Car Production
The Organisation of the Shop Floor – Anglo-German Matched Plant Studies of Operations Management
Innovation, Technology Transfer and the Craft Control of Skills
Management Practice and the Divorce Between Management and Technological Education
Conclusions
Notes
8 The State and the Management of Technology
Coercive Reform as a Temporary Departure from Normal Process – Engineering Association Reform in Britain
The State and the Reform of Engineering and Vocational Training in Germany and Britain
The State and the Management of Political Resistance to Technological Change
The Historical and Equivocal Interest of the State in Technological Change
Conclusion – the Continued Relevance of Techno-nationalism within an Enlarged States System
Notes
9 Concluding Comments on this Book
Bibliography
Index
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