Powerful Finance and Innovation Trends in a High-Risk Economy [Hardcover]

This book presents in its first part the financial determinants of innovation processes considered in a macro-economic perspective, which are limited by short-term constraints, and studies in its second part the linkages existing between the necessity to innovate in order to survive and the constant attention given to financial results.Foreword; L.C.Bresser-Pereira Introduction: How Does Finance Condition Innovation Trajectories; B.Laperche& D.Uzunidis PART I: THE FINANCE AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY Innovation and Predation; J.K.Galbraith Innovation, Finance and Economic Movements; D.Uzunidis Macroeconomic Policy, Investment and Innovation; M.Sawyer Doctrinal Roots of Short-Termism; J.E.Sawyer Finance, State and Innovative Entrepreneurs in the Contemporary Economy; S.Boutillier The Political Economy of R&D in a Global Financial Context; J.Courvisanos Finance and Intellectual Property Rights as the Two Pillars of Capitalism Changes; G.Liodakis PART II: INNOVATION TRAJECTORIES AND PROFITABILITY IN FIRM'S STRATEGIES The Firm and its Governance over the Industry Life-Cycle; J.Krafft& J-L.Ravix Economic Change and the Organization of Industry: is the Entrepreneur the Missing Link?; E.Barreiro& J.T.Ravix Innovation and Profitability in the Computer Industry; C.Genthon Creation and Co-Evolution of Strategic Options by Firms: An Entrepreneurial and Managerial Approach towards Flexibility and Resource Allocation; T.B.Helmchen Financial Means' Competencies and Innovation: Comparative Advantages between SMEs and Big Enterprises; F.Munier The Financing of Innovative Activities by Banking Institutions: Policy Issues and Regulatory Options; E.Ughetto Innovation and the Profitability Imperative: Consequences on the Formation of the Firm's Knowledge Capital; B.LapercheBLANDINE LAPERCHE is Professor (ma?tre de conferences, habilit?e ? diriger des recherches) of Economics and Vice Director of the Research Unit on Industry and Innovation, France. She is responsible forl³¬