Innovation, Science, and Institutional Change

Innovation, Science, and Institutional Change
Author: Jerald Hage
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2006-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199299196

Innovation is a key factor not just in the research & design process, but in policy, institutions, & society. This handbook is unique in examining research findings & new theoretical models relating to innovation at a number of analytic levels: projects, organizations, industrial sectors, & society.

Institutional Change and Economic Development

Institutional Change and Economic Development
Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2007-11-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857286978

‘Institutional Change and Economic Development’ discusses not just theoretical issues but a diverse range of real-life institutions – political, bureaucratic, fiscal, financial, corporate, legal, social and industrial – in the context of dozens of countries across time and space, spanning Britain, Switzerland and the USA in the past to Botswana, Brazil, and China today.

Understanding the Relationship Between Institutions and Economic Development

Understanding the Relationship Between Institutions and Economic Development
Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN:

This paper discusses how the theory on the role of institutions in development can be improved, by critically examining the current orthodox discourse on institutions. To understand the relationship between institutions and economic development, it is necessary to have some balance between institutional forms and functions, and to accept its multi-faceted nature. It concludes that a successful institutional adaptation must be politically legitimated by the members of society and requires a better knowledge of the historical and contemporary experiences of each country.

Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development

Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development
Author: Vernon W. Ruttan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780472113552

"The central premise of this book is that the demand for social science knowledge is derived from the demand for institutional change." --pref.

Institutional Change and Globalization

Institutional Change and Globalization
Author: John L. Campbell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2004-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780691089218

This book is about some of the most important problems confronting social scientists who study institutions and institutional change. It is also about globalization, particularly the frequent claim that globalization is transforming national political and economic institutions as never before.

Systems of Innovation

Systems of Innovation
Author: Charles Edquist
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136600582

The systems of innovation approach is considered by many to be a useful analytical approach for better understanding innovation processes as well as the production and distribution of knowledge in the economy. It is an appropriate framework for the empirical study of innovations in their contexts and is relevant for policy makers. This text is the result of the work within an international inter-disciplinary network or "working seminar" with the task of building a more solid and sophisticated conceptual and theoretical foundation for the continued study of innovations in a systemic context. The book has three parts. The first presents an overview and tries to work out some conceptual problems. In the second, the systems of innovation approach is related to innovation theory. Part three is devoted to increasing understanding of the functioning and dynamics of systems of innovation. There is also an introduction where the genesis and anatomy of different systems of innovation approaches are discussed and where the systems of innovation approach is characterized in nine dimensions.

Institutional Change and American Economic Growth

Institutional Change and American Economic Growth
Author: L. E. Davis
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1971-09-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521081115

This book presents a model for examining problems of institutional change and applies it to American economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The authors develop their model of institutional change. They argue that if external economic factors make an increase in income possible but not attainable within the existing institutional structure, new organizations must be developed to achieve the potential in income. Their model is designed to explain the type and timing of these necessary changes in institutional organization. Individual, voluntary cooperative, and governmental arrangements are included in the discussion, although the latter differs considerably from the first two.

Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development

Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development
Author: Harald Alard Mieg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0415630053

Which new institutions do we need to trigger local and global sustainable urban development? Are cities the right starting points for implementing sustainability policies? If so, what are the implications for city management? This book reflects the situation of cities in the context of global change and increasing demands for sustainable development. Global environmental change is forcing cities to think about their possible futures. Common approaches to city governance, from top-down planning to participation, are no longer sufficient.

Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations

Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations
Author: W. Richard Scott
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2000-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0226743101

The changes in the US healthcare system since World War II are documented here, from new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, to financing mechanisms and underlying sets of organizing principles. The authors illustrate the work with five types of healthcare organizations.

Innovation in Science and Organizational Renewal

Innovation in Science and Organizational Renewal
Author: Thomas Heinze
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2016-07-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1137594209

This book looks at the types of new research organizations that drive scientific innovation and how ground-breaking science transforms research fields and their organization. Based on historical case studies and comparative empirical data, the book presents new and thought-provoking evidence that improves our knowledge and understanding about how new research fields are formed and how research organizations adapt to breakthroughs in science. While the book is firmly based in science history, it discusses more general sociological and policy propositions regarding scientific innovations and organizational change. The volume brings together leading scholars both from the United States and Europe.