Innovation and Growth: Schumpeterian Perspectives

by F.M. Scherer

Book Overview

These sixteen essays are drawn from a body of work strongly influenced by the thought of Joseph A. Schumpeter. They are particularly appropriate in a time when low rates of growth have become the norm in the Western world and much of the economic debate focuses on prescriptions for industrial regeneration. Each essay tests hypotheses derived from the Schumpeterian propositions that technological innovation gives capitalist economies their peculiar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262192225
• ISBN13: 9780262192224
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 297 Pages