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Powerful Finance and Innovation Trends in a High-Risk Economy

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Blandine Laperche

    1. Research Unit on Industry and Innovation (Lab. RII), University of Littoral Côte d’Opale, France

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  2. Dimitri Uzunidis

    1. Research Unit on Industry and Innovation (Lab. RII), University of Littoral Côte d’Opale, France

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: How does Finance Condition Innovation Trajectories?

    1. Introduction: How does Finance Condition Innovation Trajectories?

      • Blandine Laperche, Dimitri Uzunidis
      Pages 1-10

  3. The Finance- and Knowledge-Based Economy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Innovation and Predation

      • James K. Galbraith
      Pages 13-18

    3. Innovation, Finance and Economic Movements

      • Dimitri Uzunidis
      Pages 19-34

    4. Macroeconomic Policy, Investment and Innovation

      • Malcolm Sawyer
      Pages 35-49

    5. Doctrinal Roots of Short-Termism

      • James E. Sawyer
      Pages 50-65

    6. Finance, State and Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary Economy

      • Sophie Boutillier
      Pages 66-87

    7. The Political Economy of R&D in a Global Financial Context

      • Jerry Courvisanos
      Pages 88-109

    8. Finance and Intellectual Property Rights as the Two Pillars of Capitalism Changes

      • George Liodakis
      Pages 110-127

  4. Innovation Trajectories and Profitability in Firms’ Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. The Firm and its Governance over the Industry Life Cycle

      • Jackie Krafft, Jacques-Laurent Ravix
      Pages 131-148

    3. Economic Change and the Organization of Industry: Is the Entrepreneur the Missing Link?

      • Edouard Barreiro, Joël-Thomas Ravix
      Pages 149-166

    4. Innovation and Profitability in the Computer Industry

      • Christian Genthon
      Pages 167-182

    5. Creation and Co-evolution of Strategic Options by Firms: an Entrepreneurial and Managerial Approach of Flexibility and Resource Allocation

      • Thierry Burger-Helmchen
      Pages 183-206

    6. Financial Means’ Competencies and Innovation: Comparative Advantages between SMEs and Big Enterprises

      • Francis Munier
      Pages 207-223

    7. The Financing of Innovative Activities by Banking Institutions: Policy Issues and Regulatory Options

      • Elisa Ughetto
      Pages 224-247

    8. Innovation and the Profitability Imperative: Consequences on the Formation of the Firm’s Knowledge Capital

      • Blandine Laperche
      Pages 248-269

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 270-277
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Research Unit on Industry and Innovation (Lab. RII), University of Littoral Côte d’Opale, France

    Blandine Laperche, Dimitri Uzunidis

About the editors

BLANDINE LAPERCHE is Professor (maître de conferences, habilitée à diriger des recherches) of Economics and Vice Director of the Research Unit on Industry and Innovation, France. She is responsible for the forum, The Spirit of Innovation. She specializes in the economics of innovation. She has recently published (with Dimitri Uzunidis) John Kenneth Galbraith and the Future in Economics, and (with Dimitri Uzunidis and James Galbraith) Innovation, Evolution and Economic Change.
 
DIMITRI UZUNIDIS is Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on Industry and Innovation, France. He is editor of the review Innovations. He has provided expertise to several international organizations and specializes in industrial economics.

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