The venturesome economy : how innovation sustains prosperity in a more connected world by Bhide, Amar, 1955- instant download

The venturesome economy : how innovation sustains prosperity in a more connected world by Bhide, Amar, 1955- instant download

1 online resource (xii, 508 pages) :, Many warn that the next stage of globalization--the offshoring of research and development to China and India--threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. But in The Venturesome Economy, acclaimed business and economics scholar Amar Bhide shows how wrong the doomsayers are. Using extensive field studies on venture-capital-backed businesses to examine how technology really advances in modern economies, Bhide explains why know-how developed abroad enhances--not diminishes--prosperity at home, and why trying to maintain the U.S. lead by subsidizing more research or training more scientists w, Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-497) and index, bk. 1. Cautious voyagers -- bk. 2. Embrace or resist?