Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British Computer Industry

by John Hendry

From computers to body scanners, from hovercraft to monoclonal antibodies, British researchers have been among the world's leaders in scientific discovery and invention. But British business has failed repeatedly to exploit these discoveries. This first in-depth history of the early British computer industry provides a valuable case study in the implementation of public innovation policy with lessons for any country trying to compete for sales in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262081873
• ISBN13: 9780262081870
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.