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The Economics of Persistent Innovation: An Evolutionary View (Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation (31)) by Christian Le Bas, William Latham (auth.), William R. Latham, Christian Le Bas (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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William Latham Christian Le Bas Persistence of firm innovative behavior became an important topic in applied industrial organization with the publication of the seminal empirical work of P. Geroski and his colleagues (1997). Evidence that firms innovate persistently has led previous studies to focus on the determinants of innovation persistence and on its heterogeneity across industries, technologies and countries. The aims of this book are: (1) to illumine the scale and scope of the phenomenon of persistence in innovation, and (2) to account for the principal factors that explain why some firms innovates persistently and others do not. Because this book deals intensively and extensively with the subject of firm innovation persistence, which is not, as yet, a well-known term, we need to provide a nontrivial definition of it that encompasses the full range topics we want to address and aids our understanding of how they are related to each other. We begin with a careful identification of "innovation. " Our first definition is drawn from K. Pavitt (2003), "innovation processes involve the exploration and exploitation of opportunities for a new or improved product, process or service,

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Author
Christian Le Bas, William Latham (auth.), William R. Latham, Christian Le Bas (eds.)
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media,Inc
Published
2006
Language
EN
ISBN
9780387288727
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Economics, Management, Technology

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