Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry traces the discovery and development of drugs in Japan and the UK both …-asthmatic drugs -- 5. Histamine H2 antagonists -- 6. LHRH analogues -- 7. Three case studies of pharmaceutical innovation in Japan …

Managing New Product Development and Innovation provides a new approach to the microeconomics of innovation by … measuring the technical quality of new products and guiding the managers of innovation and technology in the central … new product development and innovation. By quantifying product features and evaluating the costs and market value of …

in it, drawing a portrait of contemporary capitalism in which the grip of law threatens the pioneers of innovation … for postgraduate students and researchers of the economics of innovation and IP law. Its original empirical analysis will … also prove insightful to industrial economists, policymakers, IP lawyers and innovation managers in cultural and creative …

Kafouros theoretically and empirically examines the impacts of innovation and scientific knowledge on the productivity … innovation and firm productivity performance, the book also investigates a number of additional issues including the costs of R …'s productivity, and how multinationals build on external inventions, ideas and knowledge. The results confirm that not all firms can …

diffusion of technology, and provides fresh evidence on the effects that these differences have on productivity and innovation …pt. 1. The changing role of multinational firms in innovation -- pt. 2. How firms differ in innovation, productivity …

, Marco Pironti and Alison Rieple -- 4. Designing for disruption: strategic business model innovation / Julian Jenkins and Tim … Andrawes, Anitha Moorthy and Adela Mcmurray -- 6. The customer journey as a tool for business innovation and transformation …. Researching the design innovation process in a multinational: an empathic approach to the application of delphi technique / Mersha …

Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some … countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries …

This book explores the relationship between exports and productivity. Whilst a body of research indicates that … exporters have superior productivity to non-exporters, received wisdom suggests that this is because productive firms became … learning, can foster increased innovation. Therefore, exporting can also make firms more productive …

This comprehensive collection presents the classic articles in the economics of invention and innovation. It covers … topics related to sources of inventive and innovative activity, including exogenous and endogenous innovation, with an … Economics of Invention: A Survey of the Literature', Journal of Business, XXXII (2), April, 101-27 -- Benton F. Massell (1961 …

Contents: Introduction: Shared foundations and diverse inquiries for advancing creativity and innovation research … / Jing Zhou and Elizabeth D. Rouse -- Part I: Foundations of creativity and innovation research -- 1. Conducting rigorous … creativity and innovation / Daan van Knippenberg and Inga J. Hoever -- 4. Creativity and standardization: Tension …