Innovation And Industry Evolution

Author : David B. Audretsch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262011468

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Innovation and Industry Evolution by David B. Audretsch Pdf

It once took two decades to replace one-third of the Fortune 500; now a subset of new firms are challenging and displacing this elite group at a breathtaking rate, while armies of startups come and go within just a few years. Most new jobs are, in fact, coming from small firms, reversing the trend of a century. David Audretsch takes a close look at the U.S. economy in motion, providing a detailed and systematic investigation of the dynamic process by which industries and firms enter into markets, either grow and survive, or disappear. He shapes a clear understanding of the role that small, entrepreneurial firms play in this evolutionary process and in the asymmetric size distribution of firms in the typical industry.Audretsch introduces the large longitudinal database maintained by the U.S. Small Business Administration that is used to identify the startup of new firms and track their performance over time. He then provides different snapshots of the process of industries in motion: why new-firm startup activity varies so greatly across industries; what happens to these firms after they enter the market; the extent to which entrepreneurial firms account for an industry's economic activity and why that measure varies across industries; how small firms compensate for size-related disadvantages; and who exits and why.Audretsch concludes that the structure of industries is characterized by a high degree of fluidity and turbulence, even as the patterns of evolution vary considerably from industry to industry. The dynamic process by which firms and industries evolve over time is shaped by three fundamental factors: technology, scale economies, and demand. Most important, the evidence suggests that it is the differences in the knowledge conditions and technology underlying each specific industry -- key elements in innovation -- that are responsible for the pattern particular to that industry.

Author : David B. Audretsch,Roy Thurik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521641667

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Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment by David B. Audretsch,Roy Thurik Pdf

Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment offers a cross-disciplinary approach to employment creation and economic growth.

Author : J. K. Sengupta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230505315

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Competition and Growth by J. K. Sengupta Pdf

Jati K. Sengupta examines the market dynamics of the evolution of industry and the impact of new technology with R&D and knowledge capital. The book builds the theory of innovations in the contexts of the high-tech industries of today such as computing and telecommunications.

Author : Mariana Mazzucato,Giovanni Dosi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139450904

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Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution by Mariana Mazzucato,Giovanni Dosi Pdf

Written by internationally acclaimed experts in the economics of innovation, this volume examines how the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector is affected by the dynamics of innovation, institutions, and public policy. It contributes both theoretically and empirically to the increasingly influential Schumpetarian framework in industrial economics, which places innovation at the centre of the analysis of competition. Both quantitative and qualitative studies are included, and this varied perspective adds to the richness of the volume's insights. The contributors explore different ideas regarding the historical evolution of technology in the sector, and how firms and industry structure have co-evolved with innovation dynamics. Important policy questions are considered regarding the future of innovation in this sector and its impact on the economy.

Author : Franco Malerba,Richard R. Nelson,Luigi Orsenigo,Sidney G. Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107051706

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Innovation and the Evolution of Industries by Franco Malerba,Richard R. Nelson,Luigi Orsenigo,Sidney G. Winter Pdf

A new approach to the analysis of technological process, emphasising the tailoring of formal modelling to historical context.

Author : David B. Audretsch,Adriaan Roy Thurik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:247175471

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Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment by David B. Audretsch,Adriaan Roy Thurik Pdf

Author : Peter H. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016059482

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Innovation, Economics and Evolution by Peter H. Hall Pdf

Explores how changing technology can influence economic systems and vice versa. This text studies the impact of innovation on inter-firm competition at the industry level; technological progress and long run growth; and the economics of the firm as it relates to adopting innovations.

Author : Philip Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136223037

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Re-framing Regional Development by Philip Cooke Pdf

Turbulence characterises the current global scene. This book uses complementary theoretical approaches to understand and help prescribe policies to ‘re-frame’ the regional development problem in turbulent times. These approaches are: evolutionary complexity; evolutionary economic geography; emergence theory; and resilience theory. From below, they address the four major crises creating a ‘perfect storm’ for societies and economics involving: the climate change crisis; the energy crisis; the banking and financial crisis; and the global economic crisis. This book analyses and proposes ways in which regional economies, in particular, are having to be ‘reframed’ to address these crises. First, many must evolve in new ways, possibly moving back from the ‘service economy’ towards a new, greener form of manufacturing of goods as well as services. Accordingly, regional economies are innovating in new ways. Amongst these are the quest for ‘relatedness’ within their own regional orbits, and promoting ‘modularity’ as a mode of analysis and a policy stance to stimulate innovation across industry and geographical borders. Finally, regional economies and societies are discovering that, from a ‘resilience’ perspective, they must find answers to the higher levels of governance with which they increasingly struggle. In this respect regional economies are in ‘transition’ and regional processes are ‘emergent’. The transition seeks to address the four crises, involving re-balancing, re-directing and re-framing future policy and practice. This book describes many of the novel ‘framings’ involved in understanding the new ways in which this major task is being addressed in theory, policy and everyday practice.

Author : Mariana Mazzucato
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781952817

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Firm Size, Innovation, and Market Structure by Mariana Mazzucato Pdf

The book begins by reviewing the connection between firm size, innovation and market structure from a theoretical and an empirical point of view, with emphasis on the 'complexity' that defines this relationship. It then goes on to build an evolutionary model which explores different Schumpeterian propositions regarding the positive and negative feedback between firm size and innovation as well as the role of idiosyncratic random events on industry market structure. The concluding chapter uses 100 years in the history of the US automobile industry to explore the relationship between market share instability and stock price volatility and the degree to which this relationship is connected to industry specific factors. This innovative new book will prove invaluable to researchers, lecturers and scholars of industrial organisation, technology and market structure.

Author : Arthur O. Eger,Huub Ehlhardt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107187658

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On the Origin of Products by Arthur O. Eger,Huub Ehlhardt Pdf

Provides an evolutionary perspective on the origin of products. Offers a method to give designers directions in New Product Development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:933976883

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Innovation and the Evolution of Industries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anita Marie McGahan
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1578518407

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How Industries Evolve by Anita Marie McGahan Pdf

An Insightful Model for Understanding Industry Change From Xerox to K-Mart to Sotheby's, great companies have failed to translate extraordinary innovation into better profitability. Why does this happen? Anita M. McGahan argues that great companies fail to profit from investments in innovation when they break their industries' rules for how change can take hold. In this book, she shows how to develop a strategy that is aligned with the rules of industry change. By understanding and operating within the rules, executives can better appreciate the tradeoffs that are unique to each company's evolutionary path-and consequently improve performance by making smarter, more profitable strategic bets. How Industries Evolve is based on extensive statistical studies of 700 global industries and more than twenty-five case studies. McGahan identifies four models of industry evolution-progressive, creative, radical, and intermediating-and shows how a company can diagnose which model most closely describes the trajectory of change in its industry. The book then explains how company strategists can use their understanding of this model to carefully coordinate choices about R D, alliances, internal venturing, leadership style, compensation, modularization, and time-to-market. By supporting executives' efforts to recognize and respond to shifts in industry structure, this book will ultimately help companies to achieve and sustain superior performance.

Author : Israel Drori,Shmuel Ellis,Zur Shapira
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804783996

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The Evolution of a New Industry by Israel Drori,Shmuel Ellis,Zur Shapira Pdf

The Evolution of a New Industry traces the emergence and growth of the Israeli hi-tech sector to provide a new understanding of industry evolution. In the case of Israel, the authors reveal how the hi-tech sector built an entrepreneurial culture with a capacity to disseminate intergenerational knowledge of how to found new ventures, as well as an intricate network of support for new firms. Following the evolution of this industry from embryonic to mature, Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, and Zur Shapira develop a genealogical approach that relies on looking at the sector in the way that one might consider a family tree. The principles of this genealogical analysis enable them to draw attention to the dynamics of industry evolution, while relating the effects of the parent companies' initial conditions to their respective corporate genealogies and imprinting potential. The text suggests that genealogical evolution is a key mechanism for understanding the rate and extent of founding new organizations, comparable to factors such as opportunity structures, capabilities, and geographic clusters.

Author : David B. Audretsch,Steven Klepper
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025085940

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Innovation, Evolution of Industry and Economic Growth by David B. Audretsch,Steven Klepper Pdf

This three-volume set brings together the seminal contributions of the emerging new literature on alternative frameworks and methodologies for analyzing economic phenomena involving change. They focus on change as a central phenomenon, and innovative activity is at the heart of much of the work. Building on a rich intellectual heritage dating back to an earlier tradition represented by scholars such as Josef Schumpeter and Frank Knight, they seek to explain how and why firms are diverse, and how firms, industries, and regions change over time. Volume I (17 articles) discusses the product life cycle and industrial evolution, the start-up of new firms, sources and implications of diversity, the size distribution of firms, and growth. Volume II (18 articles) covers survival, learning and adaptation, productivity, and turbulence. Volume III (20 articles) addresses persistence, evolution and horizontal market structure, regional evolution, international competitiveness of industries, and public policies.The set lacks a subject index. Edited by Audretsch (Institute of Development Strategies, Indiana U.) and Klepper (economics and social science, Carnegie Mellon U.). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Reginald Hammah,Thamer Yacoub,Alison McQuillan,John Curran
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000521054

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The Evolution of Geotech - 25 Years of Innovation by Reginald Hammah,Thamer Yacoub,Alison McQuillan,John Curran Pdf

This publication includes 82 technical papers presented at Rocscience International Conference (RIC) 2021, held online on April 20 and 21, 2021. Rocscience created this event to bring geotechnical academics, researchers and practitioners together to exchange ideas as part of celebrating 25 years of the company’s existence. The papers in these proceedings were from keynotes, panel discussions and papers, selected after careful review of over 100 technical submissions delivered at RIC 2021. The technical papers were grouped into sessions based on their subject areas. The conference aimed to stimulate discussions that could help the industry work towards overcoming geotechnical engineering limitations today. It also sought to foster creative thinking that will advance the current states of the art and practice. The keynote addresses, panel discussions and technical presentations tried to examine geotechnical problems and situations from fresh perspectives. RIC 2021 hopes that the proceedings will continue to enrich our thinking and contribute to achieving a critical mass of change in our practices and approaches. We look forward to significant improvements in our industry.