Perspectives on innovation

Innovation has become a major field of study in economics, management, sociology, science and technology, and history. Case studies, empirical models, appreciative analyses and formal theories abound. However, after several decades of study on innovation, and so many different types of contribution, there are still ...

The economic geography of innovation

This critical addition to the growing literature on innovation contains extensive analyses of the institutional and spatial aspects of innovation. Written by leading scholars in the fields of economic geography, innovation studies, planning, and technology policy, the fourteen chapters cover conceptual and measurement issues in ...

The cultural industries

What are the 'cultural industries'? What role do they play in contemporary society? How are they changing? "The Cultural Industries" combines a political economy approach with the best aspects of cultural studies, sociology, communication studies and social theory to provide an overview of the key ...

Utility regulation in competitive markets

problems and progress

"Utility Regulation in Competitive Markets" is the latest book in the annual series published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which critically reviews the state of utility regulation and competition policy. This significant new volume contains incisive chapters ...

Entorno innovador, iniciativa emprendedora y desarrollo local

En los mercados actuales, sometidos a un intenso proceso de globalización y donde el conocimiento constituye una fuente crucial de competitividad, las empresas de nueva creación desarrollan un papel esencial. En esta obra se analiza de qué modo un entorno como el creado por Barcelona ...

Internet and digital economics

principles, methods and applications

How are our societies being transformed by internet and digital economics? This book provides an accessible introduction to the economics of the internet and a comprehensive account of the mechanisms of the digital economy. Leading scholars examine the original economic and business models being developed ...

Externalidades de red en la economía digital

introducción a la modelización de mercados de redes mediantes la teoría de sistemas dinámicos

En mercados de redes, el valor de un producto o servicio para un usuario no sólo depende del producto o servicio para un usuario no sólo depende del producto en sí mismo, sino del número de usuarios que utilizan dicho producto. Esto hace que el ...

Competing for the future

how digital innovations are changing the world

Everybody knows that digital technology has revolutionized our economy and our lifestyles. But how many of us really understand the drivers behind the technology - the significance of going digital; the miniaturization of circuit boards; the role of venture capital in financing the revolution; the importance ...

Innovation, entrepreneurship, and technological change

This book presents a reader-friendly analysis and synthesis of the key approaches in economics and management approaches to innovation, entrepreneurship, and technological change. Link and Siegel provide precise definitions of key concepts, present numerous historical examples to illustrate these concepts, outline a framework for analyzing ...

This business of music

the definitive guide to the business and legal issues of the music industry

The Bible of the music industry which is now in its tenth edition, "This Business of Music" has been revised and completely updated to reflect the latest changes in the ever-evolving music business. Commentary on recent legislation, a reader-friendly summary of the laws on copyright ...

Services and employment

explaining the U.S.-European Gap

Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in "Services and Employment", an international group of leading labor economists suggests quite a ...

Del metal al motor

innovación y atraso en la historia de la industria metal-mecánica española

Eds. Pere Pascual Domenech y Paloma Fernández Pérez. Esta obra analiza la contribución de la industria metalúrgica a la transferencia de conocimiento, innovación y crecimiento económico en nuestro país, y las causas de sus limitaciones y los obstáculos que coartaron su desarrollo. En la actualidad ...

Industry and firm studies

The fourth edition of this acclaimed text is a rich resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in industrial organization, applied game theory, and management strategy. It incorporates game theory into industry analysis by studying the behavior of successful and failing firms as well as the ...

Agglomeration, technology and business groups

"Agglomeration, Technology and Business Groups" critically reviews the reasons for the creation of business groups and examines their main characteristics. The authors demonstrate that any useful investigation of the organization and strategies of firms needs to take the business group as the basic unit of ...

Innovation, industrial dynamics and structural trnsformation

schumpeterian legacies

This book provides an account of work in the Schumpeterian and evolutionary tradition of industrial dynamics and the evolution of industries. It is shown that over time, industries evolve and change their structure. In this dynamic process, change is affected and sometimes constraint by many ...

Trade and industrial policy under international oligopoly

The existence of firms with different levels of efficiency within a country plays an important role in this in-depth analysis of industrial and trade policies in a multi-country trade-theoretic framework. Sajal Lahiri and Yoshiyasu Ono examine various industrial policies, R&D subsidies and trade policies ...

Dynamics for entry and market evolution

This book discusses both competitive and game theory models of industry growth through new technology, innovations and new entry, and provides a comprehensive treatment of various dynamic models of entry, applications of efficiency and entry models in computers and the pharmaceuticals industry, and applied models ...

Distressed US industies in the era of Globalization

This book presents analyses of several distressed industries in the United States, including the steel, footwear, textile and apparel, paper and publishing, and automobile industries. It particularly focuses on the influence of the new era of globalization on these industries, as the authors argue that ...

Competition, Innovation, and Antitrust

a theory of market leaders and its policy implications

This book reviews recent progress in the theory of oligopoly and market leadership and provides new results on the theory of Stackelberg competition and Nash competition with strategic investment under endogenous entry. These theories are applied to models of competition in quantities, prices and to ...

Tejiendo en red

la industria del género de punto en Cataluña (1891-1936)

Aunque la industria textil ha sido líder del proceso de industrialización catalán y ha tenido un primordial papel en su economía durante más de un siglo, el sector del género de punto ha quedado marginado en los estudios de historia industrial, oculto tras la sombra ...