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The purpose of this book is to evaluate the role of innovation in economics, the factors it depends on, and how it emerges over time, based on a historical analysis of several civilisations over a 10,000-year period starting with the emergence of humanity from its place of development and evolution in Africa. In this case, the analysis and evaluation begin with the emergence of Homo Sapiens from Africa, and extends to the Palaeolithic and to the Bronze Age. The earliest contemporary civilisations, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, and the Indus Valley civilisation of modern-day northern India are also discussed.
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- 1.
Robinson, A. (2015), The Indus: Lost Civilisations, Reaktion Books Ltd., London.
- 2.
Ibid.
- 3.
Ibid.
- 4.
Ibid.
- 5.
Ibid.
- 6.
Chaurasia, R. (2002), History of Ancient India, Earliest Times to 1200Â AD, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P), Ltd, New Delhi.
- 7.
Goetzmann, W., and Koll, E. (2005), Paying in Paper, A Government Voucher from the Southern Song, IN The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations That Created Modern Capital Markets, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- 8.
Hamilton, G. (1996), The Organisational Foundations of Western and Chinese Commerce: A Historical and Comparative Analysis, IN Asian Business Networks, Hamilton, G. (Ed), Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.
- 9.
Ibid.
- 10.
Ibid.
- 11.
Ibid.
- 12.
Ibid.
- 13.
Ibid.
- 14.
Hamilton, G. (1996), The Organisational Foundations of Western and Chinese Commerce: A Historical and Comparative Analysis, IN Asian Business Networks, Hamilton, G. (Ed), Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.
- 15.
Ibid.
- 16.
Ibid.
- 17.
Ibid.
- 18.
Rosser, G. (2015), The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England 1250–1550, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- 19.
Haines, W. (1982), Psychoeconomics of Human Needs: Maslow’s Hierarchy and Marshall’s Organic Growth, Journal of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 11 (Winter), pp. 97–121.
- 20.
Ibid.
- 21.
Nanjira, D. (2010), African Foreign Policy and Diplomacy from Antiquity to the 21st Century, Praeger, Santa Barbara, California.
- 22.
Bar-On, Y., Phillips, R., and Milo, R. (2018), The biomass distribution on Earth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115
- 23.
Guardian (2018), Crayfish becomes online hero by detaching claw to escape boiling soup, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/03/crayfish-becomes-online-hero-by-detaching-claw-to-escape-boiling- soup
- 24.
Damanpour, F. (1992), Organisational Size and Innovation, Organisation Studies, 13/3, pp. 375–402.
- 25.
Ibid.
- 26.
Ibid.
- 27.
Ibid.
- 28.
Helfat, C. E., Finkelstein, S., Mitchell, W., Peteraf, M., Singh, H., Teece, D. and Winter, S. (2007), Dynamic Capabilities: Understanding Strategic Change in Organizations. New York: Wiley.
- 29.
Crossan, M., and Apaydin, M. (2010), A Multi-Dimensional Framework of Organisational Innovation: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Journal of Management Studies, 47:6.
- 30.
La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., Shleifer., A and Vishny, R. (2000), Investor Protection and Corporate Governance, Journal of Financial Economics, 58, 3–27.
- 31.
Aghion, P., and P. Howitt, P. (2006), Appropriate Growth Policy: A Unifying Framework, Journal of the European Economic Association, 4 (2006), 269–314.
- 32.
Sapra, H., Subramanian, A., and Subramanian, K. (2014), Corporate Governance and Innovation: Theory and Evidence, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 957–1003.
- 33.
Castellacci, F., and Natera, J. (2013), The dynamics of national innovation systems: A panel co-integration analysis of the coevolution between innovative capability and absorptive capacity, Research Policy, 42, pp. 579–594.
- 34.
Kumari, A., and Bhaskar, S. (1998), Social Change Among Balijas, Majority Community of Andhra Pradesh, MD Publication PVT Ltd., New Delhi.
- 35.
Ibid.
- 36.
Ibid.
- 37.
Ibid.
- 38.
Ettlie, J. (1983), Organisational Policy and Innovation among Suppliers to the Food Processing Sector, The Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 27–44.
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Crossan, M., and Apaydin, M. (2010), A Multi-Dimensional Framework of Organisational Innovation: A Systematic Review of the Literature, of Management Studies, 47: 6.
Damanpour, F. (1992), Organisational Size and Innovation, Organisation Studies, 13/3, pp. 375–402.
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Goetzmann, W., and Koll, E. (2005), Paying in Paper, A Government Voucher from the Southern Song, IN The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations That Created Modern Capital Markets, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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Nanjira, D. (2010), African Foreign Policy and Diplomacy from Antiquity to the 21st Century, Praeger, Santa Barbara, California.
Robinson, A. (2015), The Indus: Lost Civilisations, Reaktion Books Ltd, London.
Rosser, G. (2015), The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England 1250–1550, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Sapra, H., Subramanian, A., and Subramanian, K. (2014), Corporate Governance and Innovation: Theory and Evidence, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 957–1003.
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