The challenge of remaining innovative : insights from twentieth-century American business

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

Other author/creator	Clarke, Sally H.
Other author/creator	Lamoreaux, Naomi R.
Other author/creator	Usselman, Steven W.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, ©2009.
Description	xviii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Technological innovations--United States --History --20th century. Research, Industrial--United States --History --20th century. Business enterprises--Technological innovations --United States --History --20th century.

Series	Innovation and technology in the world economy Innovation and technology in the world economy. ^A697989
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-340) and index.
LCCN	2008031532
ISBN	9780804758925 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0804758921 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HC110.T4 C47 2009	✔ Available	Place Hold