Michael H. Best

Michael H. Best is professor emeritus, University of

Massachusetts Lowell where he was Co-Director of the

Center for Industrial Competitiveness. He has examined

transformation of production systems in history, economic

theory, and by visiting many, many hundreds of enterprises

usually in support of industrial restructuring programs in

nearly twenty countries. His ‘capability and innovation’

perspective is developed and illustrated with enterprise,

regional and national case studies in three books, How

Growth Really Happens: The Making of Economic Miracles

through Production, Governance, and Skills, Princeton

University Press, 2018 (winner of the 2018 Schumpeter

Prize); The New Competitive Advantage: The Renewal of

American Industry, Oxford University Press, 2001 and The

New Competition: Institutions of Industrial Restructuring,

Harvard University Press and Polity Press, 1990. He lives in

Oxford.