Innovation Ecosystems: Increasing Competitiveness

✍ Scribed by Martin Fransman

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Martin Fransman presents a new approach to understanding how innovation happens, who makes it happen, and the helps and hindrances. Looking at innovation in real-time under uncertainty, he develops the idea of an 'innovation ecosystem', i.e. a system of interrelated players and processes that jointly make innovation happen. Examples include: how companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, AT&T, and Huawei interact in the ICT Ecosystem; four innovations that changed the world - the transistor, microprocessor, optical fibre, and the laser; the causes of the telecoms boom and bust of the early 1990s that influenced the Great Recession from 2007; and the usefulness of the idea of innovation ecosystems for Chinese policy makers. By delving into the complex determinants of innovation this book provides a deeper, more rigorous understanding of how it happens. It will appeal to economists, social scientists, business people, policy makers, and anyone interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.

✦ Table of Contents

Copyright_page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Contextualising Innovation
3 ‘National Innovation Systems’, ‘Business Ecosystems’, and ‘Innovation Ecosystems’
4 The ICT Innovation Ecosystem
5 Interview with Martin Fransman on Innovation Ecosystems
6 How Does Innovation Happen? An Ex Ante Perspective
7 Who Makes Innovation Happen?
8 Innovation Ecosystems and Financial Markets
9 Innovation Ecosystems, New Waves of Industrialisation, and the Implications for China
10 Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest, Money, and Innovation
11 Conclusions
Bibliography
Index