Though we live in an era of rapid innovation, the United States has introduced comparatively few commercial innovations within the past decade. Innovation shortfall contributes to weaker trade performance, decreased productivity growth, lower wages and many other economic woes. This study...

The book describes and analyses the new environment for innovation, it does this with an emphasis on yet uncharted regions within the field of practice-based innovation, coming up with guidelines for innovation policy measures needed in order to realise this. While it focuses on these policies...

Techno-Nationalism and Techno-Globalism: Conflict and Cooperation is a broad-ranging study of the technological competitiveness of nations. It examines the origins of trade and public policy conflict in the United States, Japan, France, and Germany; the friction between countries caused by...

Intro -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Integration in Cell Phones, Blue Jeans,and Medical Devices -- 2. Where Do Problems Come From? -- 3. Conversation, Interpretation, and Ambiguity -- 4. The Missed Connections of Modern Management -- 5. Combining Analysis and Interpretation -- 6....