Marcela Miozzo, Vivien Walsh

International Competitiveness and Technological Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Technological change is central in explaining industrial leadership, but the relationships and interactions between scientific research, industrial innovation, and competitiveness are neither clear nor straightforward. Public research funding and business strategy dictate to a significant extent the manner in, and extent to which innovation occurs within the economy.

This book analyses the role of technological change in the competitiveness of firms and national economies. This includes an examination of:

the roles of R&D spending, and the organisational and technological capabilities of firms in the encouragement of innovation;
the way institutions in various nations differ in the way in which they encourage - or discourage - innovation; and the way in which different industrial sectors provide - or fail to provide - incentives to innovate; and
the ways in which trade, the operation of multinationals and international trade negotiations influence national production and innovation systems .

The book combines insights of innovation scholars with those from business history, sociology and economics, in exploring the relation between organizational structures and the process of innovation. It places the analysis of innovation within an international perspective and gives historical and current examples of the interaction between organisational and technological capabilities, industrial and innovation policies and economic performance. Examples are drawn from a range of sectors
(services, pharmaceuticals, construction, chemicals) and a range of countries (including the UK and other European countries, the USA, East Asia and Latin America).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780199259243
• ISBN-10: 0199259240
• Artikelnr.: 20859517

Autorenporträt

Marcela Miozzo is Reader in Innovation Studies at Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK. Her teaching and research activities are the innovation and the internationalization of services; technological and organisational changes in the construction sector; and technological capabilities of firms in Latin America. Vivien Walsh is Professor of Innovation Management at Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK. Her teaching and research activities are the areas of globalization; networks and collaboration in the innovation process.

Inhaltsangabe

* PART I INTRODUCTION
* 1: Technology and competitiveness
* 2: The science and technology system
* PART II ORGANISATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES AND GROWTH
* 3: Organisations and technology in proprietary and managerial
capitalism
* 4: Organisations and technology during the periods of the 'new
competition' and 'systems integration'
* 5: Organisations, technology and less developed countries: East Asia
and Latin America
* PART III SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
* 6: National systems of innovation
* 7: Sectoral patterns of technological change
* PART IV GLOBALIZATION
* 8: Technological change, international investment and trade
* 9: Networks and alliances
* 10: Technology and globalization