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Common innovation : how we create the wealth of nations / G.M. Peter Swann

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Edward Elgar E-Book ArchivePublisher: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd, 2014Description: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p) ; cmISBN:
  • 9781784714611
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781847200501 (hardback) | Erscheint auch als: 9781847200501 (hardback) Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: Common innovation. Druck-Ausgabe Cheltenham [u.a.] : Edward Elgar, 2014. X, 262 SDDC classification:
  • 339.4 23
RVK: RVK: QP 210LOC classification:
  • HB251
DOI: DOI: 10.4337/9781784714611Online resources: Summary: 'Professor Swann summarizes the core thesis of his book beautifully in his concluding remarks: "... common innovation is about how we, ordinary people, create the wealth of nations. Business has no monopoly of innovation or of wealth creation." I applaud Swann's thoughtful efforts to move forward our understanding of this understudied, yet very important topic!'--Eric von Hippel, T Wilson Professor of Innovation Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, US. In his challenging new book, Common Innovation, Peter Swann argues that innovation and wealth creation are not the monopoly of business but the contribution of ordinary people. Joseph Schumpeter, the pioneer of innovation research, described business innovation as a 'perennial gale of creative destruction', whereas common innovation is, by comparison, a 'gentle and benign breeze'. In common innovation, the ordinary citizen is centre stage, and business is quite peripheral. Building upon the pioneering work of Eric von Hippel on democratic and user-led innovation, this book goes a step further - offering essential comparisons between business and common innovation, real and material wealth, and oikonomia and the 'outer economy'. Analyses and examples of the destructive side of business innovation accompany Swann's illustration of the 'benign breeze' of common innovation, and a powerful and exciting new role for Leontief models is introduced. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students seeking a more expansive and insightful understanding of the economics of innovation and wealthSummary: 1. Introduction -- 2. M-wealth and R-wealth -- 3. B-innovation and C-innovation -- 4. Oikonomia and the outer economy -- 5. The values of innovation -- 6. Analytical framework -- 7. Wide frames and the Luddites -- 8. The division of labour -- 9. Online and local booksellers -- 10. Software innovation and e-waste -- 11. Parkinson's law of traffic -- 12. Innovation and consumerism -- 13. High frequency trading -- 14. Summary of part II -- 15. Introduction to part III -- 16. Consumption and the home -- 17. Natural environment -- 18. Socio-economic environment -- 19. Education -- 20. Arts -- 21. Science -- 22. Health -- 23. Business and the marketplace -- 24. No business monopoly -- 25. Many routes to wealth creation -- 26. C-innovation and the futurePPN: PPN: 1023444216Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE
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