Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change
Author: Albert N. Link
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2007-06-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019153336X

This book presents a reader-friendly analysis and synthesis of the key economic and management approaches to innovation, entrepreneurship, and technological change. Link and Siegel provide precise definitions of key concepts, present numerous historical examples to illustrate these concepts, outline a framework for analyzing key topics, compare and contrast different theoretical frameworks, provide a reader-friendly interpretation of quantitative and qualitative findings, and emphasize international comparisons of innovation infrastructure and technology policy. Key topics covered include: · basic concepts of innovation and technological change, · a history of the role of the entrepreneur in innovation, · the impact of innovation and information technology on performance, · the analysis of technological spillovers, · innovation in the service sector, · university technology commercialization and entrepreneurship, including property-based institutions such as research parks and incubators, · entrepreneurship in the public sector, · the first systematic analysis and synthesis of the new interdisciplinary literature on technology commercialization and entrepreneurship at universities. While the book reflects the complexities of debate around these topics, it will be an important guide to the area for academics, graduate, and advanced undergraduate students of Business Studies, Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Studies. The book also provides a roadmap of specific recommendations for managers and policymakers.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technological Change

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technological Change
Author: Zoltán J. Ács
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1933019182

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technological Change links the prevalent theory from the entrepreneurship literature concerning opportunity recognition and exploitation to economic theory, in particular the model of the knowledge production function.

Technological Change and Economic Performance

Technological Change and Economic Performance
Author: Albert N. Link
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2003-02-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134487371

This useful new book reviews the literature on technology and economic growth covering historical and theoretical developments such as: *new models for measuring productivity*sources of technical knowledge and technological spillovers*stock market reactions to investment in technologySuch a comprehensive survey is likely to be welcomed by students

Entrepreneurship and Technological Change

Entrepreneurship and Technological Change
Author: Lucio Cassia
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 9781849807470

This book scrutinizes the relationship between entrepreneurship and change in technological domains in order to discover how each element influences the other. Fresh empirical evidence is placed under the lens of recent theoretical advancements, through the exploration of entrepreneurial initiatives at firm, regional and industrial levels. Distinguished scholars in the fields of entrepreneurship, technology management, strategy and innovation investigate how technological changes generate opportunities that entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial organizations can fully exploit. They also discuss the argument that entrepreneurial behavior can be a promoter of change in both technology-generating and technology-adopting businesses, and explore topics such as strategic renewal through change and entrepreneurship (at both corporate, regional and industrial level). This unique and absorbing book will prove invaluable to academics and students with an interest in entrepreneurship and technology, as well as to entrepreneurs, research and development managers and corporate executives wishing to gain an insight on how change benefits business creation and renewal. Contributors include: O.J. Borch, L. Cassia, I. Cowlrick, A. De Massis, D. Faems, S. Ford, L. Foss, P. Giacon, F. Gunzel, T. Hedner, T. Iakovleva, J. Kickul, M. Klofsten, F. Lamers, C. Leger-Jarniou, T. Minola, T. Minshall, L. Mortara, M. Muffatto, J. Napp, E. Oftedal, M. Olausson, S. Paleari, I.H.E. Roaldsen, A. Solheim, P. Svensson, C. Viala, K. Visscher, H. Wilker, R. Wolf

Technological Change

Technological Change
Author: Clotilde Coron
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119721148

Technological change is exciting as much as it is daunting. The arrival of new digital tools affects consumption patterns, types of employment and working conditions, and can pose challenges to organizations and individuals alike. Indeed, although technological change is a factor for economic growth, it can also be an amplifier, or even a catalyst, of inequality. It is also a social change and interacts in complex ways: technology is both the source and the consequence of social transformation. To understand technological change and to harness its effects, this book studies transformations at different levels (societal, organizational and individual). In its analysis of the subject, it also draws on a number of disciplines of the human and social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology and psychology.

The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth

The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth
Author: Michael J Andrews
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2022-03-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 022681078X

"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations among experts in government and economic development. But while these areas on continue to attract public and private investments, many measurements of their resulting economic growth-including productivity growth and business dynamism-have remained modest. Why this difference? Because not all business sectors are the same, and the transformative gains of some industries have been offset by stagnation or contraction in others. Accordingly, a nuanced understanding of the economy requires a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, the latest entry in the NBER conference series, seeks to codify these answers. The editors leverage industry studies to identify specific examples of productivity improvements enabled by innovation and entrepreneurship, including those from new production technologies, increased competition, new organizational forms, and other means. Taken together, the volume illuminates whether the contribution of innovation and entrepreneurship to economic growth is likely to be concentrated, be it selected sectors or more broadly"--

Managing Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Managing Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Author: Paul Trott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-12-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317498208

Managing Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation is the first textbook for non-business based entrepreneurship courses, focussed on students with a background in science and technology. Its comprehensive, rigorous and yet accessible approach originates from the authors’ considerable experience mentoring students as they turn their technological ideas into real-life business ventures. . The text is separated into three parts providing a roadmap for successful entrepreneurial projects: Part I focusses on how to create your venture, turning technology into businesses and how to link together entrepreneurship and innovation Part II shows you how to grow your venture and make it profitable, looking at the early development of academic spin-outs and how to adapt your technology to the customers’ needs. Part III takes you through the day-to-day running on your business; whether to adopt a contingency or contextual approach, how to develop new products and services and alternative options for growth. With a wide range of practical steps, lists of things to consider and guidelines on how to turn your technology based ideas into a successful business, this text will be essential for all non-business students who need to understand entrepreneurship, management and innovation. It will also prove a useful introduction to all Masters-level students taking these subjects in business schools.

Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Author: David B. Audretsch
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849807760

This path-breaking Handbook analyses the foundations, social desirability, institutions and geography of innovation and entrepreneurship. Leading researchers use their outstanding expertise to investigate various aspects in the context of innovation and entrepreneurship such as growth, knowledge production and spillovers, technology transfer, the organization of the firm, industrial policy, financing, small firms and start-ups, and entrepreneurship education as well as the characteristics of the entrepreneur. There is much in this Handbook that will prove to be informative and stimulating, especially for academics and post-graduate students in economics and management. Those starting a PhD in innovation or entrepreneurship will find this book essential reading.

The Economics of Science and Technology

The Economics of Science and Technology
Author: M.P. Feldman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461509815

Science and technology have long been regarded as important determinants of economic growth. Edwin Mansfield (1971, pp. 1- 2), a pioneer in the economics of technological change, noted: Technological change is an important, if not the most important, factor responsible for economic growth . . . without question, [it] is one of the most important determinants of the shape and evolution of the American economy. Science and technology are even more important in the "new economy," with its greater emphasis on the role of intellectual property and knowledge transfer. Therefore, it is unfortunate that most individuals rarely have the opportunity to explore the economic implications of science and technology. As a result, the antecedents and consequences of technological change are poorly understood by many in the general public. This lack of understanding is reflected in a recent survey conducted by the National Science Board (2000), summarized in Science & Engineering Indicators. ' As shown in Table 1. 1, the findings of the survey indicated that many Americans, despite a high level of interests in such matters, are not as well-informed about technological issues as they are about other policy issues. As shown in the table, individuals self assess, based on a scale from 1 to 100, their interest in science and technology policy issues as being relatively high, yet they self assess their knowledge or informedness about these issues relatively lower.

Entrepreneurship, Technology and Change

Entrepreneurship, Technology and Change
Author: Lucio Cassia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

The objective of the present chapter is to analyze the relationship between entrepreneurship and change in technological domains, with the focus on possible causal relations in both directions. It aims at investigating how technological changes generate opportunities that entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial organizations can properly exploit, and shedding light on how entrepreneurial behavior can be a promoter of change in both technology-intensive and technology-adopting businesses. Over the last 15 years we have been assisting (and keep on assisting, even nowadays) a spectacular amount of changes generated by science and technology. Technology is commonly numbered among the top drivers of a strong entrepreneurial 'renaissance' (Dosi, 1982; Arend, 1999), in particular thanks to its pervasive role, to its dramatic and irreversible development, and to the fact that recent technological changes (especially in ICT, green tech, biotechnology and life sciences) are generating opportunities that may be effectively developed by entrepreneurial firms (Stam and Garnsey, 2007). The starting point for our meditation on this topic is the perception that 'entrepreneurship is about change' (Audrestch, 2002); among all change enablers, we focus on technology because it is inherently pervasive and generates opportunities that can be caught by an entrepreneurial organization. At the same time entrepreneurial posture may be able to generate significant push in technological advancement and innovation. We approach these topics along two main perspectives: on the one hand we try to go beyond a mere focus on the radical, architectural, and product-related technical change; we analyze both technology producers and technology users (i.e. individuals or firms capable of exploiting technologies as a tool for change), which is somewhat novel in the literature on technology and entrepreneurship. On the other, we consider how the link between technological change and entrepreneurship varies along the firm's life cycle; in particular what is the role of entrepreneurship in large and mature businesses? We thus encompass the scientific advancement that has overcome the Schumpeterian dichotomy of incumbent vs. new firms in innovative regimes. The goal of this chapter is to formulate a conceptual map, based on a literature review, for homogenous handling of the book chapters. We also intend to provide a reconciliation of disciplines such as strategic management, entrepreneurship and technological change in the context of recent research progresses. Finally we aim to suggest room for future research. We based our analysis on a literature survey carried out on sixty journals included in the ABS ranking, that are in the areas of entrepreneurship, strategic management, and innovation. Through this survey we selected a number of papers which helped us to identify in the extant literature on entrepreneurship and technological change recent trends and new emerging concepts. The survey was conducted as suggested by Schildt et al. (2006): for the last three years, each issue and volume has been examined, while a second analysis has been performed on the last ten years, based on indexed research of papers containing the words 'technologic(al) change' and 'entrepreneur(ship/ial)' in the title. This resulted in more than 600 paper titles; given the nature of our research interest, we then only selected papers (both theoretical and empirical) based on the firm- or industry-level perspective and practically no individual level related papers have been included. A deeper analysis of titles enabled the identification of more than 100 contributions which were considered as relevant if at least one of the following conditions was verified: (a) the paper described entrepreneurship, or theorizes on it, within the technological domain; (b) the paper described technological changes in an entrepreneurial regime; (c) the paper suggested causality links between entrepreneurship and technological change, and/or vice versa. The chapter is organized as follows: in Section 2 we introduce evidence and debates regarding the definition of entrepreneurship; Section 3 introduces the dimensions and antecedents of technological change, providing a knowledge-based perspective that is functional to illustrate a bidirectional relationship with entrepreneurship (shown in Section 4). Section 5 discusses the role of innovation dynamics at the crossroads between entrepreneurship and technological change, deriving a conceptual map for the understanding of their mutual causality relation. Section 6 summarizes and concludes.