Similar Search Results

Scotchmer, Suzanne - The MIT Press

Interest in intellectual property and other institutions that promote innovation exploded during the 1990s. Innovation … and Incentives provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the economics of innovation, suitable for teaching at … levels of study. Innovation and Incentives presents the historical, legal, and institutional contexts in which innovation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233381

Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System

Schiller, Dan - The MIT Press

The networks that comprise cyberspace were originally created at the behest of government agencies, military contractors, and allied educational institutions. Over the past generation or so, however, a growing number of these networks began to serve primarily corporate users. Under the sway of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233391

Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies

Pinch, Trevor (contributor); Swedberg, Richard (contributor) - The MIT Press

Although social scientists generally agree that technology plays a major role in the economy, economics and technology have yet to be brought together into a coherent framework that is both analytically interesting and empirically oriented. This book draws on the tools of science and technology...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005237331

Digital Phoenix: Why the Information Economy Collapsed and How It Will Rise Again

Abramson, Bruce - The MIT Press

While we were waiting for the Internet to make us rich—back when we thought all we had to do was to buy lottery tickets called dotcom shares—we missed the real story of the information economy. That story, says Bruce Abramson in Digital Phoenix, took place at the intersection of technology,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005237369

Productivity, Inequality, and the Digital Economy: A Transatlantic Perspective

Greenan, Nathalie (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The widespread diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) has had controversial, seemingly paradoxical consequences. ICT are viewed as driving growth and employment in the United States, while contributing to European unemployment and the so-called Eurosclerosis. At the same...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034480

Communications Policy in Transition: The Internet and Beyond

Compaine, Benjamin M. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Until the 1980s, it was presumed that technical change in most communications services could easily be monitored from centralized state and federal agencies. This presumption was long outdated prior to the commercialization of the Internet. With the Internet, the long-forecast convergence of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034481

Industrializing Knowledge: University-Industry Linkages in Japan and the United States

Branscomb, Lewis M. (contributor); Kodama, Fumio (contributor) - The MIT Press

most exciting areas of business growth. Finally, although universities are vital to the networks that lead to innovation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034506

Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press

Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919684

The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity

Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, Cesar - The MIT Press

Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity," a measure of a societyâ€™s productive knowledge. Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger variety of more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141143

Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion

Cull, Robert (contributor) - The MIT Press

About 2.5 billion adults, just over half the world’s adult population, lack bank accounts. If we are to realize the goal of extending banking and other financial services to this vast “unbanked” population, we need to consider not only such product innovations as microfinance and mobile...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640592