The Genesis of Industrial America 1870-1920

This book offers a bold new interpretation of American business history during the formative years 1870--1920, which mark the dawn of modern big business. It focuses on four major revolutions that ushered in this new era: those in power, transportation, communication, and organization. Using the ...

Crecimiento y políticas de innovación

nuevas tendencias y experiencias comparadas

Las políticas de innovación ocupan un lugar central entre las actuaciones del sector público para impulsar el crecimiento a largo plazo. Las diferencias en los niveles de renta de los países, en su ritmo de crecimiento a largo plazo, en su calidad de vida y ...

Measuring entrepreneurship

building a statical system

This volume provides a comprehensive review of the theoretical concepts and empirical models of entrepreneurship from a non-conventional perspective. Its main purpose is to contribute to the design of an efficient system of indicators of entrepreneurship and competitiveness. The existence of a gap between the ...

Multinational enterprise and economic analysis

The third edition of Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis surveys the contributions that economic analysis has made to our understanding of why multinational enterprises exist and what consequences they have for the workings of the national and international economies. It shows how economic analysis can ...

Rethinking the economics of war

the intersection of need, creed, and greed

"Rethinking the Economics of War: The Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed" questions the adequacy of explaining today's internal armed conflicts purely in terms of economic factors and reestablishes the importance of identity and grievances in creating and sustaining such wars. This collection of ...

Factores explicativos de la empresa conjunta internacional

una aplicación al sector manufacturero español

La presente investigación pretende dar respuesta a la pregunta ¿qué factores son los que condicionan a las organizaciones para que elijan la empresa conjunta internacional, frente a la filial de plena propiedad, como modalidad de entrada en los mercados exteriores?. El presente estudio permite crear ...

The design of future things

The best-selling author of "The Design of Everyday Things" casts his critical eye on the new dawn of "smart" technology, from smooth-talking GPS systems to cantankerous refrigerators. This is a consumer-oriented look at the promise and perils of the smart objects of the future, and ...

La empresa red

tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, productividad y competitividad

Internet ha generado numerosas expectativas sobre la capacidad de las TIC para transformar la educación. Más allá de cuestiones estrictamente tecnológicas, el contexto social emergente plantea nuevas demandas a los sistemas educativos que difícilmente se podrán satisfacer sin el concurso de las tecnologías digitales. En ...

Los procesos de concentración empresarial

una visión económico-social

INDICE: Un contexto proclive a la expansión. Fusiones y adquisiciones: ¿éxito o fracaso?. Fusiones y adquisiciones: estudio empírico en el mercado español. Análisis social de las fusiones y adquisiciones.

Measuring the new economy

statistics between hard-boiled indicators and intangible phenomena

This book is about the intriguing subject of measuring the New Economy, which in brief means ICT and its impact on society. It brings to the surface various old and new statistical issues which call for a solution, not in the least because politicians in ...

La productividad en la economía española

Dealing with Darwin

how great companies innovate at every phase of their evolution

Risk-sharing in the pharmaceutical industry

the case of out-licensing

The costs of developing a new drug have reached record levels in the pharmaceutical industry. As any failure of a new drug candidate can lead to significant losses, many pharmaceutical companies are looking for new approaches to reduce their exposure to R and D risks ...

Centrales térmicas de ciclo combinado

teoría y proyecto

La creciente preocupación medioambiental, el cambio climático y la progresiva liberalización de los mercados eléctricos caracterizan la generación de energía eléctrica con ciclos combinados como una opción viable, con bajos costes de inversión , mínimos períodos de construcción y bajas emisiones contaminantes. Es la tecnología de ...

The economics of persistent innovation

Table of Contents: Preface and acknowledgements by Christian Le Bas Introduction by William Latham and Christian Le Bas Ch. 1 Persistence in innovation : definitions and current development of the field by Christian Le Bas and William Latham Ch. 2 Determinants of persistence in innovation : a ...

El comportamiento económico del mercado del petróleo

El petróleo, como mineral físico que es, no se acabará nunca. Un buen día, y por las circustancias que sean, los consumidores no estarán dispuestos a pagar por explorar y desarrollar nuevas reservas de mineral y el mercado se irá reduciendo hasta desaparecer. Seguirá habiendo ...

Knowledge accumulation and industry evolution

the case of Pharma-Biotech

Written by internationally acclaimed experts in the economics of innovation, this volume examines how the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector is affected by the dynamics of innovation, institutions, and public policy. It contributes both theoretically and empirically to the increasingly influential Schumpetarian framework in industrial economics ...

Propuestas novedosas a la Política Regional de Innovación

Propuestas novedosas a la política regional de innovación tiene por objeto avanzar una propuesta atrevida de nueva Política Regional Comunitaria tendente a corregir los desequilibrios existentes en el esfuerzo innovador llevado a cabo por las distintas regiones europeas, y más concretamente en la mejora del ...

Democratizing innovation

Innovation is rapidly becoming democratised. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users - both individuals and firms - often freely share their innovations with others, creating user-innovation communities and a rich intellectual commons ...

The baby business

how money, science, and politics drive the commerce of conception

In The Baby Business, Debora Spar argues that it is time to acknowledge the commercial truth about reproduction and to begin thinking about ways of governing it. In this remarkable behind-the-scenes account, she combines pioneering research and interviews with the industry's top reproductive scientists ...