Entrepreneurships, the New Economy and Public Policy Schumpeterian Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cantner, Uwe (Editor), Dinopoulos, Elias (Editor), Lanzillotti, Robert F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Economics.; Management science.; Economic history.; Industrial organization.; Industrial Organization.; Economics, general.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.

Silicon Valley is the most salient example of high-tech industrial clusters. Public policymakersthroughouttheworldwouldliketolearnthesecretsofSiliconValley in order to build their own high-tech economies. The existing literature on ind- trial clusters, which traces back to Marshall (1920), focuses o...

Table of Contents:

• Editorial
• Reflections on the Schumpeter I knew well
• Schumpeter, product innovation and public policy: the case of cigarettes
• Risk, variety and volatility: growth, innovation and stock prices in early industry evolution
• Social networks and industrial geography
• Growing Silicon Valley on a landscape: an agent-based approach to high-tech industrial clusters
• The theory of the firm and the markets for strategic acquisitions
• The growth of commercialization — facilitating organizations and practices: A Schumpeterian perspective
• On the macroeconomic effects of establishing tradability in weak property rights
• Capital in the new economy: A Schumpeterian perspective
• A comparative perspective on innovation and productivity in manufacturing and services
• Tracing empirical trails of Schumpeterian development
• Towards an evolutionary interpretation of aggregate labor market regularities
• An evolutionary model of international competition and growth
• Innovation and growth in Germany over the past 150 years
• Nonlinear dynamism of innovation and business cycles
• The dynamic effects of general purpose technologies on Schumpeterian growth.