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Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

Feller, Joseph (contributor); Fitzgerald, Brian (contributor) - The MIT Press

What is the status of the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) revolution? Has the creation of software that can be freely used, modified, and redistributed transformed industry and society, as some predicted, or is this transformation still a work in progress? Perspectives on Free and Open...

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Made in the USA

Smil, Vaclav - The MIT Press

In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy. Smil argues that no advanced economy can prosper without a strong,...

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Made in Japan: Revitalizing Japanese Manufacturing for Economic Growth

Commission, Japan - The MIT Press

In 1989 the MIT Press published Made in America, a landmark study by The MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity, an interdisciplinary group of MIT faculty members. The study analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of American industry and set forth a strategic plan for revitalizing American...

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Competitiveness, Convergence, and International Specialization

Dollar, David; Wolff, Edward N. - The MIT Press

, the authors recommend that public policy focus on institutions and policies to promote innovation in general, rather than …

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Innovation and Small Firms

Acs, Zoltan; Audretsch, David - The MIT Press

constraints. Innovation and Small Firms brings together two large data bases recently released by the U. S. Small Business … evaluate the data bases in the context of the literature on innovation, market structure, and firm size. They present their … R&D, innovation, and productivity, and analyze the interaction between technological regimes and the role of government …

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Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - The MIT Press

. Innovation is treated as an exogenous process or a by-product of investment in machinery and equipment. Grossman and Helpman … develop a unique approach in which innovation is viewed as a deliberate outgrowth of investments in industrial research by …

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Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries

Evans, David S.; Hagiu, Andrei; Schmalensee, Richard - The MIT Press

Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century. They power everything from mobile phones and automobile navigation systems to search engines and web portals. They have been the source of enormous...

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Innovation and Industry Evolution

Audretsch, David B. - The MIT Press

innovation -- that are responsible for the pattern particular to that industry. …

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The Right Way to Hire Financial Help, 2nd Edition: A Complete Guide to Choosing and Managing Brokers, Financial Planners, Insurance Agents, Lawyers, Tax Preparers, Bankers, and Rea...

Jaffe, Charles A. - The MIT Press

Hiring financial help is a task that many otherwise savvy people approach the wrong way, opting to go on recommendations from family and friends, chance encounters, or advertisements rather than on sound research. In engaging, accessible prose, nationally syndicated columnist Charles A. Jaffe...

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Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work

Fletcher, Joyce K. - The MIT Press

This study of female design engineers has profound implications for attempts to change organizational culture. Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images. Fletcher...

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