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Entrepreneurial State : Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

List of Tables and Figures; List of Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Thinking Big Again; Chapter 1: From Crisis Ideology to the Division of Innovative Labour; Chapter 2: Technology, Innovation and Growth; Chapter 3: Risk-Taking State: From 'De-risking' to 'Bring It On!'; Chapter 4: The US Entrepreneurial State; Chapter 5: The State behind the iPhone; Chapter 6: Pushing vs. Nudging the Green Industrial Revolution; Chapter 7: Wind and Solar Power: Government Success Stories and Technology in Crisis; Chapter 8: Risks and Rewards: From Rotten Apples to Symbiotic Ecosystems; Chapter 9: So
eBook, English, 2015
Perseus Book LLC (Ingram), 2015
1 online resource (284 pages)
9781783085217, 1783085215
1028941429
Front Matter; Half Title page; Main Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Thinking Big Again; A Discursive Battle; Thinking Big; Creating Markets Not Only Fixing Them; Evaluating Public Policies; Building Dynamic Public Organizations; Risks and Rewards; Secular Stagnation Is Not Inevitable; A New Language and Rhetoric; Structure of the Book; 1. From Crisis Ideology to the Division of Innovative Labour; And in the Eurozone; State Picking Winners vs. Losers Picking the State. Beyond Market FailuresThe Bumpy Risk Landscape; Symbiotic vs. Parasitic Innovation â#x80;#x98;Ecosystemsâ#x80;#x99;; Financialization; 2. Technology, Innovation and Growth; Technology and Growth; Evolutionary Economics and Systems of Innovation; Beyond System Failures; Myths about Drivers of Innovation and Ineffective Innovation Policy; Myth 1: Innovation is about R Myth 2: Small is beautiful; Myth 3: Venture capital is risk-loving; Myth 4: We live in a knowledge economyâ#x80;#x94;just look at all the patents!; Myth 5: Europeâ#x80;#x99;s problem is all about commercialization. Myth 6: Business investment requires â#x80;#x98;less tax and red tapeâ#x80;#x99;3. Risk-Taking State: From â#x80;#x98;De-riskingâ#x80;#x99; to â#x80;#x98;Bring It On!â#x80;#x99;; What Type of Risk?; State Leading in Radical (Risky) Innovation; Pharmaceuticals: Radical vs. â#x80;#x98;Me Tooâ#x80;#x99; Drugs; Biotechnology: Public Leader, Private Laggard; The National Institutes of Health: Creating the Wave vs. Surfing It; 4. The US Entrepreneurial State; The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Programme; Orphan Drugs; The National Nanotechnology Initiative; 5. The State Behind the iPhone. The â#x80;#x98;Stateâ#x80;#x99; of Apple InnovationSurfing through the Waves of Technological Advancements; From Apple I to the iPad: The Stateâ#x80;#x99;s very visible hand; How State-funded research made possible Appleâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x98;inventionâ#x80;#x99; of the iPod; Giant magnetoresistance (GMR), SPINTRONICS programme and hard disk drives; Solid-state chemistry and silicon-based semiconductor devices; From capacitive sensing to click-wheels; The Birth of the iPod's Siblings: The iPhone and iPad; From click-wheels to multi-touch screens; Internet and HTTP/HTML; GPS and SIRI; Battery, display and other technologies. Did the US Government 'Pick' the iPod?Fostering an Indigenous Sector; 6. Pushing vs. Nudging the Green Industrial Revolution; Funding a Green Industrial Revolution; National Approaches to Green Economic Development; Chinaâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x98;greenâ#x80;#x99; 5-year plan; UKâ#x80;#x99;s startâ#x80;#x93;stop approach to green initiatives; United States: An ambiguous approach to green technologies; Pros and cons of the US model; Pushingâ#x80;#x94;Not Stallingâ#x80;#x94;Green Development; The Importance of Patient Capital: Public Finance and State Development Banks; 7. Wind and Solar Power: Government Success Stories and Technology in Crisis
Wind and Solar Power: Growth Powered by Crisis