Accounting for Emergence and Novelty in Boston and Bay Area Biotechnology *
in Cluster Genesis
November 2006; published online September 2007.
Chapter. Subjects: innovation. 8305 words.
The development of the biotech industry in Boston and the San Francisco Bay area, the two most prominent biotech clusters in the United States, are compared. Their analysis rests on three...
The Accumulation of Capabilities in Indian Pharmaceuticals and Software: The Roles that Patents Did (and Did Not) Play
in Intellectual Property Rights, Development, and Catch-Up
April 2010; published online May 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: innovation. 7785 words.
This chapter discusses India. Following the 1972 patent law amendment that prohibited product patents in pharmaceuticals, new Indian pharmaceutical firms entered and old firms expanded, competing to...
Accumulation of Technological Capabilities and Economic Development: Did Brazil's IPR Regime Matter?
in Intellectual Property Rights, Development, and Catch-Up
April 2010; published online May 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: innovation. 15967 words.
This chapter discusses Brazil. After a long period of decline, growth spurted during 1950–80 and, in 1968–73, the growth rate reached 11.2 percent. As three case studies illustrate, the patent system...
The adoption of NIS in the Finnish science and technology policy of the 1990s
in Innovation, Human Capabilities, and Democracy
February 2013; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: innovation. 7885 words.
Chapter 4 analyzes the adoption and use of the National innovation system approach in the Finnish science and technology policy of the 1990s and 2000s. The term was used to create a consensus around...
Aggregate Measures of Soft Innovation
in Soft Innovation
February 2010; published online May 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: innovation. 8961 words.
This chapter takes a macro economic view and attempts to provide some feel for the extent of such innovation in the economy as a whole and the economic activities built upon it. At the macro level,...
Agreement: The First Way of Knowing
in The Unbounded Mind
March 1996; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: innovation. 8379 words.
The role of Agreement as one of the first and classic ways of knowing is examined in this chapter. It critiques one of the major philosophical bases on which professional education rests, the...
Alfred Chandler and “capabilities” theories of strategy and management
in Management Innovation
March 2012; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: innovation. 8306 words.
Alfred D. Chandler’s scholarship on the large industrial enterprise has deepened understanding of economic development, and helped establish the field of strategic management research. Chandler’s...
Alfred Chandler and knowledge management within the firm
in Management Innovation
March 2012; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: innovation. 11219 words.
This chapter examines the role of knowledge management, defined as the management of processes affecting the creation, communication, distribution, and exploitation of knowledge concerning corporate...
Alfred Chandler’s managerial revolution: developing and utilizing productive resources
in Management Innovation
March 2012; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: innovation. 11316 words.
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Alternative Approaches to the Valuations of Video, Inc.
in Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise
February 2012; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: innovation. 4852 words.
This chapter illustrated alternative approaches to the valuation of an entrepreneurial enterprise. It is based on an actual valuation of a video rental company. The importance of complementary and...