Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-929047-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Interactions between business, technological, public policy, and organization processes are changing the way modern economies work. In this book the concept of 'change' is problematized in terms of flexibility and stability across these processes, examining the central issues of industrial dynamics, structural change, and transformation. It adopts a perspective of the economy that sees it as an inherently dynamic and complex system, consisting of diverse components and activities, which interact and change in different ways over time. This means placing an emphasis not only on economic transformation, but also on the diverse actors in this transformation who are deciding, doing, and acting in ways which affect the outcomes of this change.

Chapters are grouped within three themes, which readers will find are core to the fields of innovation studies, industrial dynamics, and evolutionary economics: Experimenting and Inertia; Evolution and Adaptation of Structure; and Innovating and Technological Transformation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McKelvey, Maureen

Holmen, Magnus

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Ingenieurwissenschaftliches Knowhow
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Werkstoffkunde, Materialwissenschaft: Forschungsmethoden
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein EDV & Informatik: Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Sonstige Fertigungsindustrien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Maureen McKelvey and Magnus Holmén: Introduction

- Theme 1: Experimentation and Inertia

- 2: Mark Dodgson, David Gann, and Ammon Salter: The new craft skills of engineering: the impact of innovation technology on engineering practice

- 3: Magnus Holmén, Mats Magnusson, and Maureen McKelvey: Innovative Opportunities: A Force Driving Flexibility and Stability in the economy

- 4: Andrew Davies and Ammon Salter: The Great Experiment: Public-private partnerships and innovation in design, production and operation of capital goods in the UK

- Theme 2: Evolution and Adaptation of Structure

- 5: John Foster and Jason Potts: Complexity, evolution, and the Structure of Demand

- 6: Stan Metcalfe and Ronnie Ramlogan: Self-transformation, Self-organization, and Evolutionary Adaptation in the Economic Process

- 7: Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo and Sidney Winter: Changing Boundaries of Firms in the Evolution of the Computer Industry: Towards a history friendly model

- Theme 3: Technological Transformation

- 8: Paul Robertson and Gianmario Verona: The effects of Technological Change on the Boundaries of Existing Firms

- 9: Frank W. Geels and René Kemp: Transitions, Transformations and Reproduction: Dynamics of functional systems

- 10: Magnus Holmén and Maureen McKelvey: Analyzing Flexibility and Stability in Co-evolutionary Processes

Über Autor(innen)

Maureen McKelvey is Professor of the Economic of Innovation at the Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. She works within the innovation, evolutionary economics, and industrial dynamics communities, with a particular interest in economic and business issues related to biotechnology and open source software. Professor McKelvey is Director of the RIDE (R&D, Innovation, and Dynamics) Centre

Magnus Holmen is a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. He focuses on evolutionary systems of innovation, with a particular interest in softward and content creation.