Innovation, Economic Growth and the Firm

Edited by Jean-Luc Gaffard and Evens Salies

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Abstract: This book addresses the foundations of economic growth at the firm level, combining both theoretical and econometric contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit Marshall’s view on the management of innovation, investigate the decision of firms to venture into entrepreneurship and clarify some misunderstanding about Schumpeter’s ideas. The book goes on to shed light on the classical specialisation-flexibility trade-off and provides a vision on the role of the knowledge-based economy and firm networks in technology development. Firm survival and performance, price-cost margins and the determinants of research intensity are also investigated econometrically.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D0 L0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 9781847208323
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The Open, Evolving Economy: Alfred Marshall on Knowledge, Management and Innovation

Stanley J. Metcalfe

Ch 2 Hicks and Richardson on Industrial Change: Analysis and Policy

Mario Amendola, Sergio Bruno and Jean-Luc Gaffard

Ch 3 SMEs, Industry Dynamics and Economic Growth

David Audretsch, T. Aldridge and Adam Lederer

Ch 4 Some Significant Slips in Schumpeter’s Scenario

William Baumol

Ch 5 Market Selection Along the Firm Life Cycle

Flora Bellone, Patrick Musso, Lionel Nesta and Michel Quere

Ch 6 A Test of the Schumpeterian Hypothesis in a Panel of European Electric Utilities

Evens Salies

Ch 7 Jack of All Trades or Master of One? The Specialization–Flexibility Trade-off

Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira and Ehud Zuscovitch

Ch 8 Division of Labour and Division of Knowledge in Firms’ Innovative Networks: An Essay on Ehud Zuscovitch’s Theoretical Perspectives

Patrick Cohendet, Jean-Alain Héraud and Patrick Llerena

Ch 9 The Implementation of National Competition Policy Law and the Dynamics of Price–Cost Margins: Evidence from Belgium and the Netherlands 1993–1999

Jozef Konings, Patrick Van Cayseele and Frédéric Warzynski

Ch 10 Export Prices and Increasing World Competition: Evidence from French, German, and Italian Pricing Behaviour

Sarah Guillou and Stefano Schiavo

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