Innovation economics
Subtitle: the race for global advantage and why the United States is falling behind
By: Robert D. Atkinson and Stephen J. Ezell
Contributors: Ezell, Stephen J.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780300168990
Subjects: Diffusion of innovations; Industrial policy; Technological innovations; Economic aspects
Description: Examines the forces reshaping the global economy that favor nations committed to technological innovations, and assesses what the lack of an innovation policy could mean for the U.S. in the future.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The race for global innovation advantage; title: Explaining U.S. economic decline; title: Learning from the wrong masters: lessons from UK industrial decline; title: Why do so many refuse to see U.S. structural economic decline?; title: What are innovation and innovation policy and why are they important?; title: Crafting innovation policy to win the race; title: Cheating as a way to win the race: innovation mercantilism as the strategy of choice; title: Winning the race for innovation advantage with the eight "I's" of innovation policy; title: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself: why don't we have more innovation and more innovation policy?; title: Can nations overcome the barriers to innovation?; title: Creating a robust global innovation system.