Market Structure, Corporate Performance, and Innovative Activity [Hardcover]

Innovation in products and processes is an increasingly significant source of competitive advantage for firms and nations. Drawing on extensive data on major innovations in the UK, this book examines the role of innovation in the structure of markets and the performance of firms. Geroski draws valuable lessons for makers of public and business innovation policy.

List of Figures
List of Tables
1. Introduction
2. The SPRU Innovations Database
3. Innovation and the Evolution of Market Structure
4. Innovation, Technological Opportunity, and Market Structure
5. Entry and the Rate of Innovation
6. Entry, Innovation, and Productivity Growth
7. Innovation and the Sectoral Sources of UK Productivity Growth
8. The Profitability of Innovating Firms
9. Innovation, Profitability, and Growth over the Business Cycle
10. Some Reflections
References
Index

The author clearly has an intimate knowledge of his subject, and communicates his thoughts lucidly using a minimum of economic jargon...what makes this book of special note are the chapters concerning the design of the database and the substansive lessons to be learned from considering this set of investigations collectively...Readers should be encouraged by 10 pages of well-chosen, up-to-date reference materials and a particularly comprehensive index in this book. --Journal of Prod. Innov. Manag.