Fransman M. Innovation Ecosystems: Increasing Competitiveness

Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 354 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-47246-3.Martin Fransman presents a new approach to understanding how innovation happens, who makes it happen, and the helps and hindrances. Looking at innovation in real-time under uncertainty, he develops the idea of an 'innovation ecosystem', i.e. a system of interrelated players and processes that jointly make innovation happen. Examples include: how companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, AT&T, and Huawei interact in the ICT Ecosystem; four innovations that changed the world - the transistor, microprocessor, optical fibre, and the laser; the causes of the telecoms boom and bust of the early 1990s that influenced the Great Recession from 2007; and the usefulness of the idea of innovation ecosystems for Chinese policy makers. By delving into the complex determinants of innovation this book provides a deeper, more rigorous understanding of how it happens. It will appeal to economists, social scientists, business people, policy makers, and anyone interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.Contextualising innovation – the Schumpeterian-evolutionary approach to economic change
'National innovation systems', 'business ecosystems', and 'innovation ecosystems'
The ICT innovation ecosystem
Interview with Martin Fransman on innovation ecosystems
How does innovation happen? – An ex ante perspective
Who makes innovation happen? Is the entrepreneur becoming obsolete? Creating an organisation-level innovation ecosystem
Innovation ecosystems and financial markets – the telecoms boom and bust 1996–2003
Innovation ecosystems, new waves of industrialisation, and the implications for China
Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, Money, and InnovationTrue PDF