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The Management of Innovation and Technology: The Shaping of Technology and Institutions of the Market Economy

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: SLE Pound 2005Description: 304pISBN:
  • 076197024X
Uniform titles:
  • The Management of Innovation and Technology: The Shaping of Technology and Institutions of the Market Economy
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658 SID-B-8414
Summary: 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 `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
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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
`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

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