Research Catalog

Title

Technology and the market : demand, users and innovation / edited by Rod Coombs [and others].

Publication

Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass., USA : E. Elgar Pub., ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Coombs, Rod.

Description

xii, 307 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• "The interplay between demand from the market, the role of users in shaping that demand, and the way in which these factors influence the innovation process has always been a complex one. This book examines this interplay from a technological change perspective."
• "The contributors explore the potential for rapprochement between economics, sociological and other social science disciplines in considering the allocation of resources and the making of decisions about technological change. The chapters within this book represent a blend of theory and empirical research and look at a broad range of innovations, markets and technologies in medicine, agricultural and food production, services and IT. Technology and the Market raises the question of the many 'visible hands' that are involved in linking technology and the market together."
• "This book is recommended to academics and policymakers interested in demand-innovation interaction and scholars of industrial economics and the sociology of technology as well as entrepreneurs."--Jacket.

Series Statement

ASEAT conference proceedings series

Uniform Title

ASEAT conference proceedings series.

Subject

• High technology industries > Case studies
• New products > Management > Case studies
• High technology industries > Management > Case studies
• High technology industries
• High technology industries > Management
• New products > Management
• Verbraucherverhalten
• Spitzentechnologie
• Produkteinführung
• Technische vernieuwing
• Hoogwaardige technologie
• Manchester <1999>

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Rod Coombs, Ken Green and Albert Richards / [and others] -- 2. Many visible hands / Arie Rip and Aard J. Groen -- 3. Great expectations: the construction of markets, products and user needs during the early development of gene therapy in the USA / Paul Martin -- 4. Reconceptualizing the user(s) of -- and in -- technological innovation: the case of vaccines in the United States / Dale A. Rose -- 5. Inducement and blocking mechanisms in the development of a new industry: the case of renewable energy technology in Sweden / Anna Johnson and Staffan Jacobsson -- 6. Shaping the selection environment: 'chlorine in the dock' / Andrew McMeekin.

ISBN

• 1840644699
• 9781840644692

LCCN

2001023589

OCLC

• ocm46364722
• 46364722
• SCSB-14260718

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library