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This handbook looks to provide academics
and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding
of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number
of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management,
Economics, Geography, Sociology, Policy Studies, Psychology,
and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of
literature on innovation is characterized by a multitude
of perspectives based on, or cutting across, existing disciplines
and specializations. Scholars of innovation can come from
such diverse starting points that much of this literature
can be missed, and so constructive dialogs missed.
The editors of the Oxford Handbook of Innovation
have carefully selected and designed twenty-one contributions
from leading academic experts within their particular field,
each focusing on a specific aspect of innovation. These
have been organized into four main sections, the first of
which looks at the creation of innovations, with particular
focus on firms and networks. Section Two provides an account
of the wider systematic setting influencing innovation and
the role of institutions and organizations in this context.
Section Three explores some of the diversity in the working
of innovation over time and across different sectors of
the economy, and Section Four focuses on the consequences
of innovation with respect to economic growth, international
competitiveness, and employment.
An introductory overview, concluding remarks,
and guide to further reading for each chapter, make this
handbook a key introduction and vital reference work for
researchers, academics, and advanced students of innovation.
Jan Fagerberg is Professor at the University
of Oslo, where he is affiliated with the Centre for Technology,
Innovation and Culture (TIK).
David C. Mowery is Milton W. Terrill
Professor of Business at the Walter A. Haas School of Business
at the University of California, Berkeley.
Richard R. Nelson is a Professor at the
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University,
New York.
Contributors: Virginia Acha, Bjorn Asheim,
Susana Borras, Kristine Bruland, John Cantwell, Charles
Edquist, Jan Fagerberg, Meric Gertler, Manuel M. Godinho,
Ove Granstrand, Stine Grodal, Bronwyn Hall, Alice Lam, William
Lozonick, Bengt-Ake Lunvall, Franco Malerba, Ian Miles,
David C. Mowery, Rajneesh Narula, Richard R. Nelson, Mary
O'Sullivan, Keith Pavitt, Mario Pianta, Walter W. Powell,
Bhavan N. Sampat, Keith Smith, Nick von Tunzelmann, Bart
Verspagen, and Antonello Zanfei.
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