Explorations in Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Series Editor
James M Utterback
Professor of Management and Innovation
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E52-541, Cambridge, MA 02142-1347, USA
E-mail: jmu@mit.edu
The importance of innovation and new firm creation to economic prosperity and security is much in the news and under debate. Concerns have been raised about a possible loss of leadership in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere, while developing nations strive to create more modern firms and industries. There is a growing belief that developed economies must emphasize technology and innovation to ensure job creation, competitiveness and growth.
Over at least the past fifty years, hundreds of scholars have contributed important research, articles, and books that address these issues. Contributors have been diverse; they come from fields such as economics, history, management, sociology, political science, science and engineering, geography, population ecology, and law. Despite the variety of perspectives of the many contributors to this body of work, their results show emergent and resonant themes. These include exploration of the sources of and stimuli for successful innovations; the importance of connections between actors in the innovation process; resources and actions related to success and value of innovations; the diffusion of innovations; consequences for firms, the economy, and society; the co-evolution of technology, markets, and institutions; and changes in many of these factors over time and across cultures. This series will organize and highlight the work of some of the seminal authors in these streams of research and present some of the consequences of their early findings for scholars and policy makers today.
Forthcoming title
Vol. 1
Foundational Thinking About Innovation
Selected Papers of William J Abernathy
edited by James M Utterback
