Government as Entrepreneur

Government as Entrepreneur
Author: Albert N. Link
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2009-08-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199708843

Government acts as entrepreneur when its involvement in market activities is both innovative and characterized by entrepreneurial risk. Thinking of government as entrepreneur is a unique lens through which the authors of this book examine a specific subset of U.S. government policy actions. As such, their viewpoint underscores the purposeful intent of government, its ability to act in new and innovative ways, and its willingness to undertake policy actions that have uncertain outcomes. Viewing particular policy actions through an entrepreneurial lens is useful in two broad dimensions. First, it underscores the forward looking nature of policy makers as well as the need to evaluate the social outputs and outcomes of their behavior in terms of broad spillover impacts. Second, government acting as entrepreneur parallels in concept similar activities that occur in the private sector. Government as Entrepreneur is the first broad effort to emphasize the entrepreneurial aspects of governments. It is also the first systematic treatment of U.S. innovation policies to promote the formation of strategic research partnerships. It will foster a new perspective on the role of government and how incentives for government to act entrepreneurially might be institutionalized; it will serve as a vehicle for policy makers and scholars to think about the entrepreneurial actors in an economy, in a new way.

Industry and Innovation

Industry and Innovation
Author: William Henry Chaloner
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1990
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780714633350

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Mining Innovation

Mining Innovation
Author: Krzysztof Skrzypkowski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-04-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783725808052

Progress in the exploitation of natural raw materials is based on the interconnection between laboratory, numerical, and industrial research and the analysis of the results. These constitute the basis for developing new, more efficient exploitation methods while increasing the safety of the works carried out. The increase in mining depth and the intensification of natural hazards require that both mining machines and support be adapted to the prevailing geological and mining conditions and that the mining crew can shift from a safe place that is not at risk of losing stability.

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.

Perspectives on the Sharing Economy

Perspectives on the Sharing Economy
Author: Indre Maurer
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1527538532

Sharing instead of owning is one of the major trends in modern (business) life. By changing how people consume, the rise of the sharing economy has the potential to redefine the role of owners, consumers and producers, change their mode of transaction, create innovative business models, disrupt existing industries, and challenge political and regulative institutions. In addition to these practical implications, the sharing economy phenomenon represents a novel playground for theoretical advancement, attracting a multitude of research and researchers from different disciplines. While this can potentially open up new avenues for practice and theory to stimulate each other, they do not seem to go hand-in-hand at the moment. This volume brings together research from a wide variety of theoretical backgrounds and disciplines to encourage academic discourse on the sharing economy phenomenon. It comprises contributions that are grounded in different theoretical perspectives, including business history, economics, strategic management, organization studies, information systems, political science, legal studies, linguistics, and semantics. While all contributions focus on the sharing economy phenomenon, they examine the subject from different disciplinary angles. Together, they provide a coherent and comprehensive overview of research on the sharing economy.

Creativity and Innovation in Organizations

Creativity and Innovation in Organizations
Author: José Ramos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351401564

This book reflects on the increasing variety of perspectives in organizational innovation research, paying attention to the antecedents, but also to the outcomes, of innovation. Some chapters analyze the ‘dark side’ of innovation, including the potential negative consequences of innovative behaviors, or of defying the innovation maximization fallacy. Others explicitly consider affective responses after innovation efforts, and assume that positive or negative effects rely on the context in which innovations occur, and on the way in which people manage the process of innovation. Several contributions adopt the dialectic approach by considering the multiple pathways and mechanisms that could lead to innovation at organizations. Most of the chapters include the interaction of actors’ characteristics (from employees or teams) together with situational constraints from the task or the social context, and outline the relevance of processes like team learning; motivation variables like basic need satisfaction; congruence of motives or meaningfulness at work; dynamics of communication networks; and affective variables. This edited collection offers a rich picture of current research and management trends in the field and contributes constructively toward promoting the dialectic perspective on creativity and innovation in the workplace. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.