An Overview of Innovation

Stephen J. Kline and Nathan Rosenberg

Chapter 9 in Studies on Science and the Innovation Process:Selected Works of Nathan Rosenberg, 2009, pp 173-203 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractModels that depict innovation as a smooth, well-behaved linear process badly misspecify the nature and direction of the causal factors at work. Innovation is complex, uncertain, somewhat disorderly, and subject to changes of many sorts. Innovation is also difficult to measure and demands close coordination of adequate technical knowledge and excellent market judgment in order to satisfy economic, technological, and other types of constraints—all simultaneously. The process of innovation must be viewed as a series of changes in a complete system not only of hardware, but also of market environment, production facilities and knowledge, and the social contexts of the innovation organization.

Keywords: Science and Technology; Innovation; Research Development; Medical Innovation; Economic Growth; Development; Research Policy; Engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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