The challenge of remaining innovative : insights from twentieth-century American business / edited by Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, c2009.

Series:

Innovation and technology in the world economy.
Innovation and technology in the world economy

Format/Description:

Book
xviii, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Research, Industrial -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Business enterprises -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Contents:

The rise and decline of the independent inventor : a Schumpeterian story? / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Solokoff
Corning as creative responder : a Schumpeterian interpretation of disruptive innovation / Margaret B.W. Graham
Probability theory and the challenge of sustaining innovation : traffic management at the Bell System, 1900-1929 / Paul J. Miranti Jr.
Rethinking the invention factory : Bell Laboratories in perspective / Kenneth Lipartito
Stanford University and Frederick Terman's blueprint for innovation in the knowledge economy / Stephen B. Adams
The bold and the foolhardy : hurricanes and the early offshore oil industry / Joseph A. Pratt
Mementos : looking backwards at the Honda Motorcycle case, 2003-1973 / Christopher McKenna
Unbundling IBM : antitrust and the incentives to innovation in American computing / Steven W. Usselman
Credit and the mature market for automobiles / Sally H. Clarke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-340) and index.

Contributor:

Clarke, Sally H.
Lamoreaux, Naomi R.
Usselman, Steven W.

ISBN:

9780804758925 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804758921 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

236117302

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