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Title

Powerful finance and innovation trends in a high-risk economy / edited by Blandine Laperche and Dimitri Uzunidis.

Publication

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Laperche, Blandine.
• Uzunidis, Dimitri.

Description

xviii, 277 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Capitalism and the enterprise are economic systems that are mutually dependant in their aim of developing and disseminating new technologies. The beginning of the twenty-first century has seen an increase in global, economic dependence on the generation of new technologies. This dependence has been accompanied by greater financial risk due to the rapid obsolescence of products and technologies. An international team of experts explore the theories and facts that characterize this high-risk economy. The analysis focuses on both macro and microeconomic aspects of the contradictory relationship between finance and innovation. The book utilizes a historical and procedural approach and stresses the role of powerful finance in innovation selection and diffusion. An analysis of entrepreneurial strategies demonstrates that the evolution of the organization of an enterprise and its capacity to innovate depend on the limits defined by finance, and on the large profit opportunities offered by new technologies and new markets.

Subject

• Capitalism
• Finance
• Technological innovations > Economic aspects
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance
• Capitalism
• Kapitalism
• Finansiella marknader
• Tekniska innovationer > ekonomiska aspekter

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword; L.C. Bresser-Pereira -- Introduction: How Does Finance Condition Innovation Trajectories; B. Laperche and D. Uzunidis -- PART I: THE FINANCE AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY -- Innovation and Predation; J.K. Galbraith -- Innovation, Finance and Economic Movements; D. Uzunidis -- Macroeconomic Policy, Investment and Innovation; M. Sawyer -- Doctrinal Roots of Short-Termism; J.E. Sawyer -- Finance, State and Innovative Entrepreneurs in the Contemporary Economy; S. Boutillier -- The Political Economy of R and D in a Global Financial Context; J. Courvisanos -- Finance and Intellectual Property Rights as the Two Pillars of Capitalism Changes; G. Liodakis -- PART II: INNOVATION TRAJECTORIES AND PROFITABILITY IN FIRM'S STRATEGIES -- The Firm and its Governance over the Industry Life-Cycle; J. Krafft and J-L. Ravix -- Economic Change and the Organization of Industry: is the Entrepreneur the Missing Link?; E. Barreiro and J.T. Ravix -- Innovation and Profitability in the Computer Industry; C. Genthon -- Creation and Co-Evolution of Strategic Options by Firms: An Entrepreneurial and Managerial Approach towards Flexibility and Resource Allocation; T.B. Helmchen -- Financial Means' Competencies and Innovation: Comparative Advantages between SMEs and Big Enterprises; F. Munier -- The Financing of Innovative Activities by Banking Institutions: Policy Issues and Regulatory Options; E. Ughetto -- Innovation and the Profitability Imperative: Consequences on the Formation of the Firm's Knowledge Capital; B. Laperche.

ISBN

• 0230553591 (alk. paper)
• 9780230553590 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007050168

OCLC

183179608

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Harvard Library