{"product_id":"the-challenge-of-remaining-innovative-9780804758925","title":"The Challenge of Remaining Innovative","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores innovation as a complex phenomenon that may be organizational as well as technological, that operates both within firms and across the broader economy, and that involves matters not only of research and development, but also of marketing, design, and government relations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These essays collectively allow the reader to walk a mile in the shoes of corporate managers faced with the difficult task of generating and sustaining innovation. As the authors vividly demonstrate, managers simultaneously built in-house R\u0026amp;D labs, forged external relationships, and monitored regulatory developments in order to 'reduce the uncertainty inherent in innovation and transform it into a manageable risk.\"—Eric S. Hintz, \u003ci\u003eTechnology \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This collection of excellent studies offers a range of insights on contribution factors...The general introduction and those to each part by the editors Clark, Lamoreaux, and Usselman provide informative context and cohesiveness to this very worthwhile volume.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Written for economists and business executives, these articles focus on research, design and marketing concepts that must be managed by companies, networks of companies, intermediates in private industries and government institutions. Case studies on innovation in companies such as IBM, Bell Labs and Honda are also presented.\"\u003ci\u003eBook News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Challenge of Remaining Innovative\u003c\/i\u003e is full of excellent papers by world-class scholars. This book makes a major contribution to thinking about innovation, among business and economic historians, and among contemporary scholars of innovation and economics.\"—JoAnne Yates, Author of \u003ci\u003eControl through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStructuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Information Technology in the 20th Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Challenge of Remaining Innovative\u003c\/i\u003e charts the rise of research laboratory as the engine of innovation in the 20th century. Clarke, Lamoreaux, and Usselman provide new insight into this game changing institutional innovation, and their work challenges all of us to imagine the new ways of organizing and commercializing innovation that will power economic development in the 21st century.\" —Richard Florida, Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of the Creative Class\u003c\/i\u003e and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Challenge of Remaining Innovative\u003c\/i\u003e, a stellar group of authors asks anew the Schumpeterian questions of innovation, the corporation, and the state. The result is a sophisticated and nuanced volume that will find itself at the center of future scholarship in this area.\" —Richard N. Langlois, Professor of Economics, The University of Connecticut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  List of Figures and Tablesxi  Acknowledgmentsxiii  Contributorsxv  Introduction1  Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman  Prologue: Reorganizing Innovation  Introduction to the Prologue: Reorganizing Innovation000  Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman  1 The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpeterian Story?\t000  Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Solokoff,  Part I: Within Firms  Introduction to Part I: Within Firms\t000  Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman  2\tCorning as Creative Responder: A Schumpeterian Interpretation of   Disruptive Innovation\t000  Margaret B. W. Graham  3\tProbability Theory and the Challenge of Sustaining Innovation: Traffic   Management at the Bell System, 1900-1929\t000  Paul J. Miranti, Jr.  4\tRethinking the Invention Factory: Bell Laboratories in Perspective\t000  Kenneth Lipartito  Part II: Among Firms  Introduction to Part II: Among Firms\t000  Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman  5\tStanford University and Frederick Terman's Blueprint for Innovation in the   Knowledge Economy\t000  Stephen B. Adams  6\tThe Bold and the Foolhardy: Hurricanes and the Early Offshore Oil   Industry\t000  Joseph A. Pratt  7\tMementos: Looking Backwards at the Honda Motorcycle Case, 2003-1973  \t000  Christopher McKenna  Part III: Firms and the State  Introduction to Part III: Firms and the State\t000  Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman  8\tUnbundling IBM: Antitrust and the Incentives to Innovation in American   Computing\t000  Steven W. Usselman  9\tCredit and the Mature Market for Automobiles\t000  Sally H. Clarke  Notes\t000  Selected Bibliography\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405573628247,"sku":"9780804758925","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-challenge-of-remaining-innovative-9780804758925","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}