Cases in technological entrepreneurship

converting ideas into value

Ed. Claudio Petti; Preface by Aldo Romano. This book carries key cases and field insights by a group of distinguished contributors. It shows how government bodies, private investors and companies deal with the transformation of new ideas into value, from start-ups to incumbents. This book ...

Creating value through innovation

In open and dynamic markets, only innovation can give a firm a competitive advantage and with it the superior cash flows that generate value. Using analytical models, this timely book analyzes the conditions under which innovation strategy can create and maintain value, based on different ...

Network enterprises

the evolution of organizational models from guilds to assembly lines to innovation clusters

Building on the historical analysis of organizations and theories that have influenced their development, Gianfranco Dioguardi provides an insightful exploration of the network enterprise and its evolution from the Medieval guilds to the present innovation clusters of Silicon Valley, the Research Triangle, Route 128, and ...

Cases in european competition policy

the economic analysis

Ed. Bruce Lyons. Competition between firms is usually the most effective way of delivering economic efficiency and what consumers want. However, there is a balance to be struck. Firms must not be over-regulated and so hampered in their development of innovative products and new strategies ...

Playbooks and checkbooks

an introduction to the economics of modern sports

What economic rules govern sports? How does the sports business differ from other businesses? "Playbooks and Checkbooks" takes a fascinating step-by-step look at the fundamental economic relationships shaping modern sports. Focusing on the ways that the sports business does and does not overlap with economics ...

The theory of the firm

microeconomics with endogenous entrepreneurs, firms, markets, and organizations

The Theory of the Firm presents a path-breaking general framework for understanding the economics of the firm. The book addresses why firms exist, how firms are established, and what contributions firms make to the economy. The book presents a new theoretical analysis of the foundations ...

Innovation for the 21st Century

harnessing the power of intellectual property and antitrust Law

On their broadest level, the IP and antitrust laws aim to increase societal welfare. But they do so in different ways. The foundation of the IP system is the right to exclude. This right allows inventors to recover their investment costs and to obtain profits ...

Handbook of antitrust economics

Over the past twenty years, economic theory has begun to play a central role in antitrust matters. In earlier days, the application of antitrust rules was viewed almost entirely in formal terms; now it is widely accepted that the proper interpretation of these rules requires ...

Microeconomía

introducción para la diplomatura en Ciencias Empresariales

Concebido para alumnos de Diplomatura en Ciencias Empresariales y en especial para los de la UNED, este libro presente el núcleo teórico tradicional de la enseñanza de Microeconomía a ese nivel en cualquier Universidad del mundo, pero en un diseño moderno para futuros profesionales que ...

Microeconomics

theory and applications with calculus

Professors teaching this course have two concurrent goals: to teach the microeconomic tools students need for future coursework and careers, and to encourage students to work problems. In Microeconomics: Theory and Applications with Calculus, Perloff brings his hallmark pedagogy to the calculus-based course by integrating ...

Microeconomic policy

a new perspective

This thoroughly accessible textbook shows students how microeconomic theory can be used and applied to major issues of public policy. In this way, it will improve their understanding of both microeconomic theory and policy and also develop their ability to critically assess them. Clem Tisdell ...

Microeconomics for public managers

"Microeconomics for Public Managers" presents a rigorous non- mathematical introduction to the study of microeconomics geared towards managers of nonprofit institutions. It provides an introduction to the economist's toolkit for students destined for not-for-profit enterprises and public institutions. In this title, topics are selected ...

Microeconomía

una presentación crítica

Este libro presenta la Microeconomía tal como es, sin usar metáforas engañosas o alusiones a «mecanismos» misteriosos. Y lo hace críticamente, por dos razones básicas. En primer lugar, porque sin ser de nivel avanzado (no hace demostraciones matemáticas detalladas) sino, más bien, de introducción e ...

Introducción a la microeconomía

comportamientos, intercambio y mercados

Esta tercera edición de Introducción a la Microeconomía. Comportamientos, intercambio y mercados, es el resultado de un compromiso de los autores por incorporar aquello más novedoso que está en condiciones de formar parte de un manual de introducción y, también, el resultado de una revisión ...

Economía industrial

libro de problemas

Microeconomics of banking

Over the last thirty years, a new paradigm in banking theory has overturned economists' traditional vision of the banking sector. The asymmetric information model, extremely powerful in many areas of economic theory, has proven useful in banking theory both for explaining the role of banks ...

The economics of banking

"The Economics of Banking" describes and explains trends and operations in banking within an accessible microeconomic framework. It incorporates theory with the practical aspects of banking so as to set banking within the economics paradigm. A primary section on trends within banking leads on to ...

La actividad emprendedora

empresas y empresarios en España, 1997-2006

Esta obra es el resultado del Segundo Informe sobre la actividad emprendedora en España promovido por la Fundación Rafael del Pino. Los autores enfatizan en las características y determinantes de dicha actividad emprendedora y explotan, por primera vez, la creatividad -schumpeteriana- de los nuevos empresarios ...

Production economics

integrateing the microeconomic and engineering perspectives

A production economist focuses on assessment, and will use an aggregate description of technology to answer such questions as: How does the firm compare to its competitors? Has the firm improved its production capabilities? A production engineer focuses on optimizing resources, and will use a ...

The Megacorp and Oligopoly

micro foundations of macro dynamics

This book provides both an explanation of the inflation which has bedeviled economic policy in the West since the end of World War II and a micro-economic theory to purge Keynesian models of the Walrasian strain derived from Marshall's Principles. By focusing on what ...