The challenge of remaining innovative
Subtitle: insights from twentieth-century American business
By: edited by Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman.
Contributors: Clarke, Sally H.; Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Usselman, Steven W.
Series: Innovation and technology in the world economy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780804758925
Subjects: Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Research, Industrial -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Business enterprises -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The decline of the independent inventor : a Schumpeterian story? / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Solokoff; title: Corning as creative responder : a Schumpeterian interpretation of disruptive innovation / Margaret B.W. Graham; title: Probability theory and the challenge of sustaining innovation : traffic management at the Bell System, 1900-1929 / Paul J. Miranti, Jr; title: Rethinking the invention factory : Bell Laboratories in perspective / Kenneth Lipartito; title: Stanford University and Frederick Terman's blueprint for innovation in the knowledge economy / Stephen B. Adams; title: The bold and the foolhardy : hurricanes and the early offshore oil industry / Joseph A. Pratt; title: Mementos : looking backwards at the Honda Motorcycle case, 2003-1973 / Christopher McKenna; title: Unbundling IBM : antitrust and the incentives to innovation in American computing / Steven W. Usselman; title: Credit and the mature market for automobiles / Sally H. Clarke.