Flexibility and Stability in the Innovating Economy - Hardcover

by Maureen McKelvey (Editor), Magnus Holmén (Editor)

Interactions between business, technological, public policy, and organization processes are changing the way modern economies work. In this book the concept of "change" is problematized in terms of flexibility and stability across these processes, examining the central issues of industrial dynamics, structural change, and transformation.

Author Biography

Maureen McKelvey is Professor of the Economic of Innovation at the Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. She works within the innovation, evolutionary economics, and industrial dynamics communities, with a particular interest in economic and business issues related to biotechnology and open source software. Professor McKelvey is Director of the RIDE (R&D, Innovation, and Dynamics) Centre Magnus Holmén is a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. He focuses on evolutionary systems of innovation, with a particular interest in softward and content creation.