The Theory of Innovation: Enterpreneurs, Technology and StrategyThis important book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the development of innovation theory from the nineteenth century to the present day. It examines the emergence of different theories of innovation in different periods, and how they compete for dominance today. Specifically, it looks at three paradigms within innovation theory – entrepreneurship, the rise of technology, and strategic behaviour. |
Contents
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4 Overview of the book | 6 |
Issues in Innovation Theory | 8 |
3 The central concepts of the analysis | 19 |
4 Methodology and presentation of the analysis | 24 |
Innovation Theory in Historical Perspective The Long Waves of the Economy | 26 |
1 Long waves in the economy as the background for innovation theory | 27 |
1 The theoretical situation at the beginning of the 1990s | 106 |
2 The development of technologyeconomics | 108 |
3 The rediscovery of entrepreneurship | 116 |
the strategic theory of innovation | 125 |
5 Consequences of the strategic theory for the other basic theories | 155 |
6 Conclusion | 158 |
The Interrelationships of the Three Basic Innovation Theories and their Implications at the Micro Level | 161 |
1 The current economic cycle | 162 |
3 Causes of the long waves | 34 |
4 The Kondratiev cycles | 39 |
5 Trade and industry policy and the Kondratiev cycles | 42 |
6 Conclusion on the Kondratiev cycles | 43 |
7 Revised model for the Kondratiev cycles | 44 |
Three Innovation Periods Each with its Own Innovation System | 46 |
The recovery phase in the third Kondratiev wave c 188092 and the entrepreneur paradigm | 47 |
the 1930s and 1940s until the 1960s and the technologyeconomics paradigm | 60 |
Towards the fifth Kondratiev wave in the 1980s and 1990s New tendencies in industrial and organizational development | 85 |
The Paradigmatic Situation in Innovation Theory in the Recovery Phase in the 1980s and 1990s The Strategic Theory of Innovation | 105 |
a monotheoretical or multitheoretical explanation of innovation? | 163 |
3 Th three basic innovation theories | 165 |
4 A monotheoretical or multitheoretical explanation at the micro level? | 186 |
SummingUp | 188 |
2 The three basic theories | 191 |
3 Implications of the basic theories at the micro level | 193 |
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The Theory of Innovation: Enterpreneurs, Technology and Strategy Jon Sundbo No preview available - 1998 |
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