Innovation and the economic crisis - lessons to be learned
Birkbeck academics have published a book about innovation and the current economic crisis...
Innovation and the economic crisis – lessons to be learned
Two Birkbeck academics have published a book looking at the impact of the current economic crisis on innovation – an area which is often overlooked among the scholarly and public debates on the issue.
Innovation and Economic Crisis: Lessons and Prospects from the Economic Downturn, by Daniele Archibugi, Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy, and Research Fellow, Andrea Filippetti, focuses particularly on Europe, and is published by Routledge, as part of the publisher’s Studies in Global Competition series.
The authors propose possible explanations for the crisis, examine which countries have continued to innovate in spite of the crisis and those that have started to decline; they also consider the strategies being deployed by the manufacturing and service sector, and identify the companies that, through creative destruction and technological accumulation, are likely to lead a new economic renaissance.