Description
Book Synopsis`The book provides a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers... In particular, it provides a good introduction to broader aspects of the field of innovation for researchers based within the engineering and science traditions'
- Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management`Howells has synthesised a broad range of sources with considerable insight to provide the first sophisticated single volume on innovation that draws on economics, sociology, law and from the history of science and technology. By setting innovation in social and institutional context, he convincingly shows how firms and markets shape and can be shaped by the decisions of managers and entrepreneurs. I will certainly be using this book as a central text for my Masters degree teaching on innovation management, management of technology and related topics' - Jonathan Liebenau, London School of Economics and Columbia University
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Table of Contents
Technological Innovation Invention, Science, R&D and Concepts of Use and Market Patterns in Technological Development and the Creation of Technological Standards Competition and Innovation as Substitution Threat Intellectual Property Law and Innovation Finance - Techniques, Institutions and Innovation Innovation and the Organisation of Technical Expertise and Work The State and the Management of Technology
