Theory of Innovation

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2. Theory of Innovation

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3. Innovation Models

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4. Schumpeterian Innovation

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5. Endogenous Innovation

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6. Innovation Diversity: Industry Applications

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7. Innovation Challenges

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8. Managing Innovation

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9. Back Matter

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The current economic theory of innovation mainly analyses the technology factor and its impact on economic growth. In today's world, growth in information technology and knowledge of new ideas has altered the business paradigm dramatically. Modern economies have undergone a dynamic shift from material manufacturing to a new information technology model with research and development (R&D) and human capital. Through information and communications technology efficient information usage has achieved substantial productivity gains through learning by doing and incremental innovations. The present volume discusses this new paradigm in terms of both theory and industry applications, including Schumpeter in his innovation model and the emphasis on new innovations replacing the old. Growth of business networking and R&D consortium have dramatically helped the modern business to reduce their unit costs and improve efficiency. This volume presents some new models emphasizing knowledge sharing and R&D cooperation. Rapid growth in recent times in some south Asian countries have been cited as growth miracles are largely caused by knowledge spillover and learning by doing, and this volume also investigates the role of incremental innovations. With a strong focus and extension of the current theory of innovation and industry growth experiences of both the US and Asian countries, this book will be of interest to MBA and graduate students in economics, innovation management, and applied industrial economics.

• Information technology
• Rapid growth
• Research and Development
• Resource allocation
• Schumpeterian Model
• Theory of innovation

• Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara College of Letters & Science, Santa Barbara,, USA

  Jati Sengupta

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