1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462187503321

Autore

Atkinson Robert D.

Titolo

Innovation economics : the race for global advantage / / Robert D. Atkinson and Stephen J. Ezell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-283-57132-3

9786613883773

0-300-18911-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 431 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

338.0640973

Soggetti

Technological innovations - Economic aspects - United States

Technological innovations - Economic aspects

Diffusion of innovations - United States

Industrial policy - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-415) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 The Race for Global Innovation Advantage -- 2 Explaining U.S. Economic Decline -- 3 Learning from the Wrong Master -- 4 Why Do So Many Refuse to See U.S. Structural Economic Decline? -- 5 What Are Innovation and Innovation Policy and Why Are They Important? -- 6 Crafting Innovation Policy to Win the Race -- 7 Cheating as a Way to Win the Race -- 8 Winning the Race for Innovation Advantage with the Eight "I's" of Innovation Policy -- 9 Why Don't We Have More Innovation and Innovation Policy? -- 10 Can Nations Overcome the Barriers to Innovation? -- 11 Creating a Robust Global Innovation System.

Sommario/riassunto

"Why America no longer leads the world in innovation, why we should be concerned, and what must be done about it This important book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations are making support for technology and innovation a central tenet of their economic strategies and policies, America lacks a robust innovation policy. What does this portend? Robert Atkinson and Stephen Ezell, widely respected



economic thinkers, report on profound new forces that are shaping the global economy--forces that favor nations with innovation-based economies and innovation policies. Unless the United States enacts public policies to reflect this reality, Americans face the relatively lower standards of living associated with a noncompetitive national economy. The authors explore how a weak innovation economy not only contributed to the Great Recession but is delaying America's recovery from it and how innovation in the United States compares with that in other developed and developing nations. Atkinson and Ezell then lay out a detailed, pragmatic road map for America to regain its global innovation advantage by 2020, as well as maximize the global supply of innovation and promote sustainable globalization."--Provided by publisher.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791892403321

Titolo

The anatomy of Japanese business / / edited with an introduction by Kazuo Sato and Yasuo Hoshino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 1984, 2011

ISBN

1-136-91013-1

1-136-91014-X

1-283-03846-3

9786613038463

0-203-84305-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions.Japan ; ; v. 16

Altri autori (Persone)

HoshinoYasuo

SatoKazuo <1927->

Disciplina

650.0952

658.00952

658/.00952

Soggetti

Corporations - Japan

Industrial management - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1984.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE01; COPYRIGHT01; TITLE02; COPYRIGHT02; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; THE ANATOMY OF JAPANESE BUSINESS; INTRODUCTION; I: MANAGEMENT; 1 MECHANISTIC VS. ORGANIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ADAPTIVE PATTERNS OF AMERICAN AND JAPANESE FIRMS; 2 THE GROWTH OF FIRMS IN JAPAN: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF CHIEF EXECUTIVES; 3 STRUCTURAL UNIFORMITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FACTORIES IN BRITAIN, JAPAN, AND SWEDEN; II: BUSINESS GROUPS; 4 THE STRUCTURE OF MANAGERIAL CONTROL: WHO OWNS AND CONTROLS JAPANESE BUSINESSES?

5 INTERFIRM RELATIONS IN AN ENTERPRISE GROUP: THE CASE OF MITSUBISHIIII: PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; 6 HOW THE TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM WAS CREATED; 7 QUALITY CONTROL IN JAPAN: THE CASE OF FUJI XEROX; 8 PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY CONTROL: CASE STUDIES; IV: STRATEGY; 9 THE GRAND STRATEGY OF JAPANESE BUSINESS; 10 DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGIES AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; 11 GENERAL COMPARISON OF FINANCIAL CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN MERGING AND NONMERGING FIRMS IN JAPAN; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

This volume collects eleven essays written by Japanese experts on various aspects of Japanese business management and is a sequel to the volume Industry and Business in Japan. It examines the mechanisms for Japan's phenomenal economic growth since the Second World War by analyzing Japanese management, business groups, production systems and business strategy.