TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fransman,Martin
TI  - Innovation ecosystems: increasing competitiveness 
SN  - 9781108472463 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - T173.8 F785 2019 CL11894
U1  - 338/.064 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - University of Edinburgh
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Research, Industrial
KW  - Industrial productivity centers
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Martin Fransman presents a new approach to understanding how innovation happens, who makes it happen, and the helps and hindrances. Looking at innovation in real-time under uncertainty, he develops the idea of an 'innovation ecosystem', i.e. a system of interrelated players and processes that jointly make innovation happen. Examples include: how companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, AT&T, and Huawei interact in the ICT Ecosystem; four innovations that changed the world - the transistor, microprocessor, optical fibre, and the laser; the causes of the telecoms boom and bust of the early 1990s that influenced the Great Recession from 2007; and the usefulness of the idea of innovation ecosystems for Chinese policy-makers. By delving into the complex determinants of innovation this book provides a deeper, more rigorous, understanding of how it happens. It will appeal  to economists, social scientists, business people, policy makers, and anyone interested in innovation and entrepreneurship--
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