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Change, Transformation and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

Change, Transformation and Development

For as long as one can remember, the edifice of the neoclassical economic syn thesis has been under attack. Critiques have focused on the extreme unreality of the assumptions that underpin the Arrow-Debreu theorems of welfare economics. They have queried the excessive formalism of the edifice, and the lack of practical significance of many of the results.They have castigated the neoclassical synthesis for its internal incoherence (lacking an independent theory of capital, for example, one of the favorite topics of the Cambridge school), its lack of a dynamic element, its non-evolutionary character, its lack of any conception of "market process" and so the list could be continued (Blaug, 1997...

Knowledge Integration and Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Knowledge Integration and Innovation

Technology-based firms continue to compete primarily on innovation, and one continuously required to present new solutions to an exacting market. As technological complexity and specialization intensifies, firms increasingly need to integrate and co-ordinate knowledge by means of project groups, diversified organizations, inter-organizational partnerships, and strategic alliances. Innovation processes have progressively become interdisciplinary, collaborative, inter-organizational, and international, and a firm's ability to synthesize knowledge across disciplines, organizations, and geographical locations has a major influence on its viability and success. This book demonstrates how knowledg...

Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy

Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy analyses the interplay of technological, institutional, market and management factors in the dynamics of energy systems. The book aims to inform national and international policies to promote low carbon innovation.

Green Innovation in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Green Innovation in China

Just a decade ago, China maintained only a handful of operating wind turbines -- all imported from Europe and the United States.

The Age of Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

The Age of Knowledge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-10-14
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Age of Knowledge emphasizes that the ongoing transformations of knowledge, both within universities and for society more generally, must be understood as a reflection of the larger changes in the constitutive social structures within which they are invariably produced, translated and reproduced.

Technological Learning in the Energy Sector
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Technological Learning in the Energy Sector

'This expert analysis provides an important contribution to understanding the technicalities of energy technology cost dynamics. Given the urgent need for delivery of low-cost renewable energy technologies in particular, it is vital to understand how to accelerate this process of technological learning.' - Miguel Mendonca, World Future Council, Germany

Creating a Sustainable Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Creating a Sustainable Economy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-19
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book is designed for those scholars, students, policy-makers – or just curious readers– who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy. Contributions to this book draw on multiple streams of institutional and evolutionary economics and help build an approach to environmental policy that radically diverges from mainstream prescriptions. No 'silver bullet' solutions emerge from the analyses. Even market-based tools – such as green taxes or tradable pollution permits – are bound to fail if they are not incorporated into an integrated, multi-dimensional and multi-actor policy for structural change.

The Paradox of Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship in Low-Tech Industries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

The Paradox of Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship in Low-Tech Industries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-07-22
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book presents the first multidimensional investigation of KIE in the context of low-tech industries and gives insights in paradox conditions and specific mechanisms, using the example of the German textile industry. Therefore, the author solves conceptual inconsistencies and develops an alternative framework referring to systemic concepts of sectoral innovation systems and KIE as well as to the concept of institutional entrepreneurs. As a result, the deviation of willful actors from a restricting institutional environment and sources of entrepreneurial opportunities can be investigated more comprehensively.

Handbook of Sustainable Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Handbook of Sustainable Innovation

The Handbook of Sustainable Innovation maps the multiple lineages of research and understanding that constitute academic work on how technological change relates to sustainable practices of production and consumption. Leading academics contribute by mapping the general evolution of this academic field, our understanding of sustainable innovation at the firm, user, and systems level, the governance of sustainable innovation, and the methodological approaches used. The Handbook explores the distinctiveness of sustainable innovation and concludes with suggestions for generating future research avenues that exploit the current diversity of work while seeking increased systemic insight.

Innovation Systems, Policy and Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 537

Innovation Systems, Policy and Management

Describes how institutions and markets can best be structured in order to promote innovation in key economic sectors.