Innovation and Growth
Subtitle: From R and D Strategies of Innovating Firms to Economy-Wide Technological Change
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780199646685
Subjects: Technological innovations, economic aspects; Economic development; Research, industrial
Description: This volume provides an understanding of firms' R&D and innovation strategies and their economy-wide consequences. It is based on the premise that differences in firm-level returns, as well as economy-wide outcomes, may be linked to the heterogeneous ways in which firms organize and undertake R&D and innovation activities. It emphasizes innovation strategies of innovating firms, and reflects that innovation efforts do not represent a uniform type of expenditure. Organized into three parts the volume moves from the micro to the macro-level. This structure highlights the notion that R&D and innovation and growth are two interdependent perspectives. The first of these is micro-oriented and focuses on innovation processes of firms, where R&D activities and other innovation efforts give rise to consequences such as a strengthening of resource bases, growth of sales and employment, patents, new products, increasing productivity and profits, and improved chances of survival.