We argue that scholars in the Austrian tradition of economics should incorporate the notion of a collaborative innovation bloc into their study of spontaneous market order. We demonstrate how successful entrepreneurship depends on an innovation bloc of this kind, a system of innovation that...

We present the theory of the collaborative innovation bloc (CIB), an evolving system of innovation within which activity takes place over time. We show how the application of the CIB perspective can help make institutional and evolutionary economics more concrete, relevant, and persuasive,...

The innovation systems (IS) approach — developed by Richard Nelson, Christopher Freeman and Bengt-Ake Lundvall, amongst others — has become perhaps the dominant approach in the academic literature for the study of innovation. It has also exerted considerable influence on policy. This paper...

Until the twenty one century, innovation and ideas have been a valuable asset to accelerate the process of technological catch-up, sustain productivity growth and competitiveness. To determine where innovation is standing up, countries and organizations need to adapt innovation capacity to...

The aim of the article is to study the relation between product innovation and its associated risk, particularly in the Brazilian manufacturing industry in the period of 1995-2005. A statistical model is developed based on the study realized by Bromiley (1991), seeking to identify whether...

La versión española de este artículo se puede encontrar en: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3132227. The TPS - Toyota Production System first known worldwide as Just In Time (JIT), then as Lean Production, however as Toyota claims, both names do not communicate and nor completely capture the spirit...