The Venturesome Economy : How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World /

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Many warn that the next stage of globalization--the offshoring of research and development to China and India--threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. But in The Venturesome Economy, acclaimed business and economics scholar Amar Bhide shows how wrong the doomsayers are. Using extensive fiel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bhide, Amar, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Technology transfer.
Research and development partnership.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Entrepreneurship.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Industrial Technology.
Projets de recherche et de developpement > Cooperation internationale.
Societes de recherche et de developpement.
Transfert de technologie > États-Unis.
Research and development projects > International cooperation.
Technology transfer > Developing countries.
Technology transfer > United States.
United States.
Developing countries.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Many warn that the next stage of globalization--the offshoring of research and development to China and India--threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. But in The Venturesome Economy, acclaimed business and economics scholar Amar Bhide shows how wrong the doomsayers are. Using extensive field studies on venture-capital-backed businesses to examine how technology really advances in modern economies, Bhide explains why know-how developed abroad enhances--not diminishes--prosperity at home, and why trying to maintain the U.S. lead by subsidizing more research or training more scientists w.
Physical Description:1 online resource (520 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400829088

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