Innovation Ecosystems: Increasing Competitiveness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108472463)

Martin Fransman presents a new approach to understanding how innovation happens, who makes it happen, and the helps and hindrances. Looking at innovation in real-time under uncertainty, he develops the idea of an 'innovation ecosystem', i.e. a system of interrelated players and processes that jointly make innovation happen. Examples include: how companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, AT&T, and Huawei interact in the ICT Ecosystem; four innovations that changed the world - the transistor, microprocessor, optical fibre, and the laser; the causes of the telecoms boom and bust of the early 1990s that influenced the Great Recession from 2007; and the usefulness of the idea of innovation ecosystems for Chinese policy makers. By delving into the complex determinants of innovation this book provides a deeper, more rigorous understanding of how it happens. It will appeal to economists, social scientists, business people, policy makers, and anyone interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Author: Martin Fransman
ISBN-10: 110847246X
ISBN-13: 9781108472463
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2018
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2019