Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy [Hardcover]

Interactions between business, technological, public policy, and organization processes are changing the way modern economies work. In this book the concept of change is problematized in terms of flexibility and stability across these processes, examining the central issues of industrial dynamics, structural change, and transformation.

1. Introduction,Maureen McKelvey and Magnus Holm?n
Theme 1: Experimentation and Inertia
2. The new craft skills of engineering: the impact of innovation technology on engineering practice,Mark Dodgson, David Gann, and Ammon Salter
3. Innovative Opportunities: A Force Driving Flexibility and Stability in the economy,Magnus Holm?n, Mats Magnusson, and Maureen McKelvey
4. The Great Experiment: Public-private partnerships and innovation in design, production and operation of capital goods in the UK,Andrew Davies and Ammon Salter
Theme 2: Evolution and Adaptation of Structure
5. Complexity, evolution, and the Structure of Demand,John Foster and Jason Potts
6. Self-transformation, Self-organization, and Evolutionary Adaptation in the Economic Process,Stan Metcalfe and Ronnie Ramlogan
7. Changing Boundaries of Firms in the Evolution of the Computer Industry: Towards a history friendly model,Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo and Sidney Winter
Theme 3: Technological Transformation
8. The effects of Technological Change on the Boundaries of Existing Firms,Paul Robertson and Gianmario Verona
9. Transitions, Transformations and Reproduction: Dynamics of functional systems,Frank W. Geels and Ren? Kemp
10. Analyzing Flexibility and Stability in Co-evolutionary Processes,Magnus Holm?n and Maureen McKelvey

Maureen McKelvey is Professor of the Economic of Innovation at the Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Tels8