In this volume a group of distinguished scholars take up the familiar Schumpeterian theme of innovation. They cast it in a new light by emphasizing, not technology and innovation in particular industries, but rather innovation in institutions and organizational structures. They thus cumulatively argue that innovation promotes not only industry but the evolution of society as a whole.
This volume, together with the companion volume Schumpeter in the History of Ideas, is a selection of papers presented at the fourth biennial meeting of the International Schumpeter Society, held in Kyoto in August 1992. The Society, founded in 1986, is a group of economists who share the aim to promote the scientific study of the problems of economic development and innovation along the lines suggested by Joseph Alois Schumpeter.
Contributors are Zoltan J. Acs, Cristiano Antonelli, Daniele Archibugi, David B. Audretsch, Bo Carlsson, Mark Casson, Kurt Dopfer, Christopher Green, Alfred Greiner, Horst Hanusch, Ken-ichi Imai, Takenori Inoki, William Lazonick, Pier Paolo Saviotti, Horst Siebert, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Akiko Yamazaki.
Mark Perlman is University Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh. Yuichi Shionoya is Professor of Economics Emeritus and former President, Hitotsubashi University.
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