The challenge of remaining innovative : insights from twentieth-century American business / edited by Sally H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven W. Usselman. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009. - xii, 349 p. ; 24 cm. - Innovation and technology in the world economy . - Innovation and technology in the world economy. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The 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.

9780804758925 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804758921 (cloth : alk. paper)

2008031532


Technological innovations--History--United States--20th century.
Research, Industrial--History--United States--20th century.
Business enterprises--Technological innovations--History--United States--20th century.

HC110.T4 / C47 2009

658.4/063