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

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ISBN: 9780761970248 | 076197024X
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Copyright: 2/9/2005

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This book analyzes 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.

List of Figures and Tables

vii

Acknowledgements

viii

Preface

Technological Innovation

(21)

Variety in the Meaning Attributed to Invention, Innovation and Technology and the Organisation of this Book

(2)

Use of the Technology Complex

(4)

Technology, its Uses and the Institutions of the Market Economy

(3)

Implications for the Structure of this Book

(1)

Some Contrasting Conceptual Approaches to the Representation of Innovation

(9)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(2)

Invention, Science, R&D and Concepts of Use and Market

(39)

Invention as the Creative Contribution to Innovation

(8)

The Role of Existing Patterns of Use in Invention -- Reference Markets for Innovation

(11)

The Management of Industrial R&D

(10)

Rise of the Organisational Innovation of the R&D Department

(6)

Concluding Comments

(1)

Notes

(3)

Patterns in Technological Development and the Creation of Technological Standards

(24)

Paths of Development, Increasing Returns to Scale and Dominant Designs

(10)

Increasing Returns and `Path Dependency' -- a Process for `Lock-in' to Specific Designs

(5)

Managing Neutral Standards through the Recruitment of Competitors -- VHS Versus Betamax Video Recorders

(7)

Conclusions on Standards and Paths of Development

(1)

Notes

(2)

Competition and Innovation as Substitution Threat

(29)

Competitive Scenarios of Innovation

(1)

Creative Destruction and Firm Response

(19)

Conflict between Competition Policy and Innovation Policy

105

(6)

Concluding Comments -- and Does the Study of Innovation Necessarily Follow a `Chicago' or `Schumpeterian' School of Thought?

111

(1)

Notes

111

(3)

Intellectual Property Law and Innovation

114

(31)

The Patent Institution as an Aid to Innovation

114

(23)

Mutual Adaptation of Intellectual Property Law and Technology

137

(5)

Concluding Comments on Innovation and the Patent Institution

142

(1)

Notes

143

(2)

Finance -- Techniques, Institutions and Innovation

145

(37)

Development and Internal Financial Evaluation

145

(9)

Development and the Market for Corporate Control

154

(9)

Development and Financial Institutions External to the Firm

163

(15)

Conclusion

178

(1)

Notes

179

(3)

Innovation and the Organisation of Technical Expertise and Work

182

(45)

Explaining Spectacular Achievements in Japanese Car Production

182

(19)

The Organisation of the Shop Floor -- Anglo-German Matched Plant Studies of Operations Management

201

(8)

Innovation, Technology Transfer and the Craft Control of Skills

209

(10)

Management Practice and the Divorce Between Management and Technological Education

219

(3)

Conclusions

222

(2)

Notes

224

(3)

The State and the Management of Technology

227

(41)

Coercive Reform as a Temporary Departure from Normal Process -- Engineering Association Reform in Britain

228

(2)

The State and the Reform of Engineering and Vocational Training in Germany and Britain

230

(13)

The State and the Management of Political Resistance to Technological Change

243

(11)

The Historical and Equivocal Interest of the State in Technological Change

254

(10)

Conclusion -- the Continued Relevance of Techno-nationalism within an Enlarged States System

264

(1)

Notes

265

(3)

Concluding Comments on this Book

268

(1)

Bibliography

269

(11)

Index

280

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

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