The management of innovation and technology : the shaping of technology and institutions of the market economy /
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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Technological Innovation
- Variety in the Meaning Attributed to Invention, Innovation and Technology and the Organisation of this Book 1
- Use of the Technology Complex
- Technology, its Uses and the Institutions of the Market Economy
- Implications for the Structure of this Book 10
- 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 268
- Bibliography
- Index.