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- ...

Tarjeta roja

el mundo secreto de la FIFA: sobornos, manipulación de votos y escándalos con las entradas

El Libro secreto de la FIFA: sobornos, manipulación de votos y escándalos con las entradas", que recoge algunos de los capítulos más turbios del máximo organismo mundial futbolístico, la FIFA, y constata la corrupción de algunos altos cargos de esta entidad. Jennings, quien ha viajado ...

Future electricity technologies and systems

Where will our electricity come from in the future, and how will we use it? The UK is aiming for a 60% reduction of 1990 carbon dioxide emission levels by 2050, yet the electricity industry and patterns of electricity use must change radically if this ...

China shifts gears

automakers, oil, pollution, and development

Chinese production of automobiles rose from 42,000 cars per year in 1990 to 2.3 million in 2004; the number of passenger vehicles on the road doubled every two and a half years through the 1990s and continues to grow. In "China Shifts Gears ...

Oil in the twenty-first century

issues, challenges, and opportunities

Oil is hitting the headlines once again. The big increases in oil prices over the past two years are upsetting consumers and puzzling producers. The reasons are difficult to understand, since few people are familiar with the complex workings of the price regime for oil ...

Análisis de la actividad exportadora en la PYME española

relación con los resultados empresariales

SUMARIO: Introducción. Capítulo 1: la pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) y su competitividad. Capítulo 2: la internacionalización de la pyme. Capítulo 3: investigación exploratoria # estudio de casos. Capítulo 4: investigación confirmatoria # encuesta sobre estrategias empresariales (esee). Conclusiones. Limitaciones. Bibliografía.

The emerging digital economy

entrepreneurship, clusters, and policy

The technology dynamics of the digital age continue to impact where industries and firms locate and cluster geographically. Some of the impacts and structural patterns are consistent with the old or Fordist economic era; some are not. Thus, the contributions provide a balanced view of ...

The movie business book

Drawing on the knowledge of a full spectrum of industry experts including producers, independent filmmakers, managers and financiers, the third international edition of "The Movie Business Book" offers a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the film industry. It features a preface written especially for the international ...

The economics of open source software development

Open Source Software (OSS) development appears to present a stark contrast to traditional production and innovation methods and an unlikely contestant in the marketplace. Some of the most striking features are that OSS development is based on contributions of volunteer programmers, that these programmers only ...