Cost‐reduction innovation under mixed economy

Dynamics of the Mixed Economy

Why does one failed intervention always seem to lead to another? Since the collapse of the centrally planned economies, some form of mixed economy has become the dominant paradigm guiding social and economic policy throughout the world. Yet there has been relatively little analysis of the inherently destabilizing tensions and contradictions within the mixed economy itself, nor of the underlying...

The Mixed Economy of Care

Metropolitan Innovation in the New Economy

This paper analyzes the high-tech economies of 350-plus metropolitan areas across the U.S. during 2010. Attention is given to 20 different production attributes—including the age and education of the workforce, patent production, business startups, per capita productivity of the workers, and the like. Multivariate analysis is used to reduce these 20 attributes down to 10 orthogonal dimensions; ...

Knowledge management : Innovation in the Knowledge Economy

OECD's books, periodicals and statistical databases are now available via www.SourceOECD.org, our online library. Ask your librarian for more details of how to access OECD books on line, or write to us at [email protected] Today's " knowledge economies " are seeing the emergence of new paradigms for innovation and the advancement of knowledge in relation to economic activities. This report ex...

Economy, Industry, Innovation and Technical Democracy

This paper acknowledges that ethical questions raised by ICT are so fundamental that they include the question of the anthropological changes caused by communications tools. It then looks at the motivation of large companies to discharge their social responsibilities. The paper also argues that Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) are no longer the main decision makers for fundamental strategic corp...