Powerful Finance and Innovation Trends in a High-Risk Economy

by Laperche, Blandine; Uzunidis, Dimitri

• ISBN13: 9780230553590
• ISBN10: 0230553591
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book presents in its first part the financial determinants of innovation processes considered in a macro-economic perspective, which are limited by short-term constraints and studies in its second part the linkages existing between the necessity to innovate in order to survive and the constant attention given to financial results

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Financial Constraints and Innovation Processes

Innovation and Predation

Innovation, Finance and Economic Movements

Macroeconomic Policy, Investment and Innovation

Doctrinal Roots of Short-Termism

The Political Economy of R&D in a Global Financial Context

Finance and Intellectual Property Rights as the Two Pillars of Capitalism Changes

Innovation and the Profitability Imperative: Consequences on the Formation of the Firm's Knowledge Capital

Innovation and Profitability in Enterprises' Strategies

Innovation and Profitability in the Computer Industry

Financial-Means' Competencies and Innovation: Evidence of Comparative Advantages between SMEs and Big Entreprises

The Financing of Innovative Activties by Banking Institutions: Policy Issues and Regulatory Options

Innovation and Financing--A Sensitivity Analysis

Creation and Co-evolution of Strategic Options by Firms: An Entrepreneurial and Managerial Approach towards Flexibility and Resource Allocation

Economic Change and the Organisation of Industry: Is the Entrepreneur the Missing Link?

Finance as a Generator of Innovating Entrepreneurs

Foreword

Introduction

Financial Constraints and Innovation Processes

Innovation and Predation

Innovation, Finance and Economic Movements

Macroeconomic Policy, Investment and Innovation

Doctrinal Roots of Short-Termism

The Political Economy of R&D in a Global Financial Context

Finance and Intellectual Property Rights as the Two Pillars of Capitalism Changes

Innovation and the Profitability Imperative: Consequences on the Formation of the Firm's Knowledge Capital

Innovation and Profitability in Enterprises' Strategies

Innovation and Profitability in the Computer Industry

Financial-Means' Competencies and Innovation: Evidence of Comparative Advantages between SMEs and Big Entreprises

The Financing of Innovative Activties by Banking Institutions: Policy Issues and Regulatory Options

Innovation and Financing--A Sensitivity Analysis

Creation and Co-evolution of Strategic Options by Firms: An Entrepreneurial and Managerial Approach towards Flexibility and Resource Allocation

Economic Change and the Organisation of Industry: Is the Entrepreneur the Missing Link?

Finance as a Generator of Innovating Entrepreneurs

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