Managerial economics : a problem solving approach / Luke M. Froeb, Brian T. McCann.

"Thompson South-Western's MBA series in economics"--Cover.

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1. Product and Process Innovation, Scientific Research, Knowledge Dynamics, a Institutional Change:PRODUCT AND PROCESS INNOVATION; 2. Introduction; 3. Product and Process Innovation: A Review of Organizational and Environmental Determinants; 4. Interorganizational Relation and Innovation: Review and Speculation; 5. Knowledge-based View of Radical Innovation: Toyota Prius Case; 6. Markets and Industrial Innovation; 7. Can Regulations Induce Environmental Innovations? An Analysis of the Role of Regulations in the Pulp and Paper Industry in Selected Industrialized Countrie 8. From Theory to Practice: The Use of the Systems of Innovation Approach in Innovation Policy; SECTION II: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH; 9. Introduction; 10. Factors Influencing Advances in Science and Technology: Variation due to Diversity in Research Profiles; 11. Network Attributes Impacting the Generatio and Flow of Knowledge Within and From the Basic Science Community; 12. Innovation, Learning, and Macro-Institutional Change: The Limits of the Market Model as an Organizing Principle for Research Systems; 13. How is Innovation Influenced by Science and Technology Policy Governance? Transatlantic Comparisons; 14. Two Styles of Knowing and Knowledge Regimes: Between 'Explicitation' and 'Exploration' Under Conditions of 'Functional Specialization' or 'Fragmental Distribution'; SECTION III: KNOWLEDGE DYNAMICS IN CONTEXT; 15. Introduction; 16. Building Innovation Capabilities: The Development of Design-Oriented Organizations; 17. New Sources of Radical Innovation Research-Technologies: Transversity and Distributed Learning in a Post-Industrial Order; 18. How Markets Matter: Radical Innovation, Societal Acceptance and the Case of Genetically Engineered Food; 19. Prospective Structures of Science and Science Policy; 20. The Role of Education and / An Introduction; SECTION I.