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 ...

Electricity markets

pricing, structures and economics

The relationship between policy objectives, free markets, and the technicalities of electricity production, network flow, supply and consumption, is not a simple one. In this context the book relates electricity market structures, economics for electricity, and derivative pricing of electricity. It is intended as a ...

Innovation strategies in interdependent States

essays on Smaller Nations, regions and cities in a globalized world

Examining the issues facing smaller regions and countries, John de la Mothe explores how innovation, strategy and interdependence shape their performance, competition, and futures. Innovation and interdependence are central elements of advanced and advancing economies. In our globalized world, the production of knowledge is continually ...

New frontiers in the economics of innovation and new technology

essays in honour of Paul A. David

Recent research on the economics of innovation has acknowledged the importance of path dependence and networks in the evolution of economies and the diffusion of new techniques, products, and processes. These are topics pioneered by Paul A. David, one of the world's leading scholars ...

Technology matters

questions to live with

This book discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that clarify what technology is and why it matters. Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central ...

Clusters in urban and regional development

Going beyond the celebrated 'hot- spots' of economic development, the book draws upon evidence from a broader range of cities and regions to help fill some important gaps in our knowledge of how clusters operate within the contemporary global economy. This book was previously published ...

Innovations in health care

a reality check

"Innovations in Health Care" is the fourth title in an ongoing series from the biennial conference, "Organizational Behaviour in Health Care". It compiles case examples of innovations within complex healthcare settings that are working, providing some credible and valuable examples of what can be and ...

Dealing with Darwin

how great companies innovate at every phase of their evolution

Dealing with Darwin, Moore's most ambitious work to date, offers nothing less than a new unified theory of the evolution of markets. Drawing on hundreds of different examples, Moore illuminates how established companies can prevent their own extinction - not by throwing resources wildly at ...

Measuring efficiency in health care

analytic techniques and health policy

With the healthcare sector accounting for a sizeable proportion of national expenditures, the pursuit of efficiency has become a central objective of policymakers within most health systems. However, the analysis and measurement of efficiency is a complex undertaking, not least due to the multiple objectives ...

Innovation dynamism and economic growth

a nonlinear perspective

Contents: Preface 1. Nonlinear Dynamism of Innovation: Executive Summary Part I: Diffusion of Innovation and Economic Growth 2. Dynamics of Product Diffusion and Economic Development 3. Kondratiev Business Cycles and Innovation Dynamism 4. Sequence of Bubble, Crash and Depression 5. Trunk Innovations and Institutional Change ...

The economics of public utilities

Public utilities supply a set of goods and services that are central to the workings of a modern economy. Their importance in the economy's structure is matched by the interest and complexity of the problems they present for the ecomic analysis. This two-volume set ...

Internet y la nueva economía en las empresas

estudio del caso Amadeus

El objetivo central de este libro consiste en estudiar en qué medida Internet y la Nueva Economía están influyendo en las empresas y qué alteraciones se producen en su estructur, en su competitividad y en su valoración. El estudio se completa con un análisis financiero- ...