The innovation illusion : how so little is created by so many working so hard / Fredrik Erixon and Björn Weigel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]Description: xiv, 297 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300217407 (c1 : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338/.064 23
LOC classification:
  • HC 79 E68h 2016
Contents:
Introduction -- Middle-aged capitalism -- Grey is the colour of capitalism -- The rise and rise again of bureaucratic corporate managerialism -- The two faces of globalisation -- The return of the regulators -- Unleashed regulatory complexity and uncertainty overwhelm innovation -- Capitalism and robots -- The future and how to prevent it.
Summary: Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial-a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a vast array of data and case studies to tell a very different story. With
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HC 79 E68h 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000140400

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-274) and index.

Introduction -- Middle-aged capitalism -- Grey is the colour of capitalism -- The rise and rise again of bureaucratic corporate managerialism -- The two faces of globalisation -- The return of the regulators -- Unleashed regulatory complexity and uncertainty overwhelm innovation -- Capitalism and robots -- The future and how to prevent it.


Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial-a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a vast array of data and case studies to tell a very different story. With

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