The Economics of Industrial Innovation - Softcover

Freeman, Chris; Soete, Luc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262561131 ISBN 13: 9780262561136

Publisher: MIT Press, 1997

Synopsis

Technical innovation has moved to center stage in contemporary debates on economic theory and policy, and Chris Freeman and Luc Soete have played a prominent part in these debates. For this new edition of The Economics of Industrial Innovation, they have rewritten all the existing chapters and added ten new ones that address recent advances in theory and in policymaking. In the new chapters they deal with the international dimensions of technical change including underdevelopment, technology transfer, international trade, and globalization. They have also strengthened the historical account of the rise of new technologies, a main feature of earlier editions. They take advantage of their experience on projects for the OECD, the European Union, and industry in other new chapters on "The Information Society" and on environmental issues, as well as in the updated discussion of science and technology policy.

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Review:

"As an introduction to the study of technical change in the twentieth-century economy, Freeman's book is superb."- "Business History Review"

Synopsis:

Technical innovation has moved to centre stage in contemporary debates on economic theory and policy. The third edition of this work has been rewritten in all the existing chapters and has added ten new chapters to address recent advances in theory and in policymaking. Dealing with the international dimensions of technical change including underdevelopment, technology transfer, international trade, and globilization, it has also added to the historical account of the rise of new technologies. Using their experience of projects for the OECD, the European Union, and industry, the authors include new chapters on "the information society", environmental issues, and on the updated discussion of science and technology policy.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0262561131
• ISBN 13: 9780262561136
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 480