Igniting Innovation: Rethinking the Role of Government in Emerging Europe and Central Asia

Itzhak Goldberg, John Gabriel Goddard, Smita Kuriakose

ISBN 10: 0821387405 / ISBN 13: 9780821387405

Verlag: WORLD BANK PUBN, 2011

Beschreibung

Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 165 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10805375/122

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Igniting Innovation: Rethinking the Role of Government in Emerging Europe and Central Asia
• Verlag: WORLD BANK PUBN
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0821387405
• ISBN-13: 9780821387405
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Sehr gut

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Inhaltsangabe

Innovation and technology absorption are now firmly recognised as one of the main sources of economic growth for emerging and advanced economies alike. That is why innovation is seen as a possible catalyst for revitalising post-transition economies hit hard by the recent financial and economic crisis. Is government intervention needed to foster innovation in post-transition economies? This is the central question to which this book responds. The answer is yes, but a qualified yes. Innovation activities are rife with market failures that tend to hold back private investment. And badly designed or badly implemented interventions can further hamper the development of an innovative and entrepreneurial culture among businesses and research communities. This book builds on the lessons from public institutions and programs to support innovation, both successful and failed, from Eastern Europe and Central Asia as well as China, Finland, Israel, and the United States. The lessons highlight the pitfalls of imitating models of government interventions from 'innovative' countries without having adequate systemic governance and institutional reforms. They underscore the need for intensified international R and D collaboration and foreign R and D investment to better integrate post-transition economies in the global R and D community. They spotlight further opening to FDI to encourage knowledge absorption. And they point to the importance of overhauling government support programs -especially financial ones - to address key pressures points along the innovation and commercialisation continuum.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.