Innovation in the Service Economy: The New Wealth of Nations

摘要: Contemporary economies are often described as innovation economies. They also definitely service far services their main sources of wealth and employment. Paradoxically there is still considerable unwillingness to consider them in services, if the two characteristics modern societies (service innovation) could coexist while ignoring each other. This paradox rooted an obsolete conception economy which relegates periphery considers manufacturing being only engine growth. The aim this book try reconcile these basic contemporary It propounds a relatively simple theoretical framework allows both account for specifities enrich our understanding industrial itself. model fed by numerous empirical investigations carried out different countries various sectors. likely interest reasearchers conscious decreasing return apparatus inherited from agricultural past, but managers public authorities, faced with necessity design strategies policies able benefit challenges new innovation.