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An Overview of Innovation

In: Studies On Science And The Innovation Process Selected Works of Nathan Rosenberg

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  • STEPHEN J. KLINE
  • NATHAN ROSENBERG

    (Stanford University, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, USA)

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Models that depict innovation as a smooth, well-behaved linear process badly misspecify the nature and direction of the causal factors at work. Innovation is complex, uncertain, somewhat disorderly, and subject to changes of many sorts. Innovation is also difficult to measure and demands close coordination of adequate technical knowledge and excellent market judgment in order to satisfy economic, technological, and other types of constraints—all simultaneously. The process of innovation must be viewed as a series of changes in a complete system not only of hardware, but also of market environment, production facilities and knowledge, and the social contexts of the innovation organization.

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  • Stephen J. Kline & Nathan Rosenberg, 2009. "An Overview of Innovation," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Nathan Rosenberg (ed.), Studies On Science And The Innovation Process Selected Works of Nathan Rosenberg, chapter 9, pages 173-203, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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