Overview
- Addresses the timely issue of maximizing the potential of technological innovation and diffusion
- Employs innovative research methods (integrating micro case studies and macroeconomic analysis) to consider practical implications at firm, industry, and national economy levels
- Compares aircraft industry with telephony, computers, and medical technologies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation (ESTI, volume 34)
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Gunnar Eliasson is professor em of Industrial Economics/Dynamics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm . He is an associate senior researcher at the Ratio Institute in Stockholm. He was previously president of the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research (IUI) in Stockholm and before that Chief Economist and Director of the Economic Policy Department at the Federation of Swedish Industries. From 1994 to 1996 he was the President of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society. He is the father of the Swedish micro to macro simulation model MOSES and the theory of the Experimentally Organized Economy and of Competence Blocs. He has published many books and many journal articles in the fields of industrial economics, the theory of the firm, business economic planning and management, labor and education economics and simulation modeling. Among the books can be mentioned Business Economic Planning (1976), Technological Competition and Trade in the Experimentally Organized Economy (1987), The Knowledge Based Information Economy (1990) , Firm Objectives, Controls and Organization (1996) and The Birth, the Life and the Death of Firms (2005).
Together with his wife Ulla he has authored a study on the 15th century art markets in Northern Italy and Florence (1997).
Gunnar Eliasson´s current research is focused on the economics of the firm and management, technology, entrepreneurship and economic development and on the competence demands on the labor markets of the New Economy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advanced Public Procurement as Industrial Policy
Book Subtitle: The Aircraft Industry as a Technical University
Authors: Gunnar Eliasson
Series Title: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5849-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5848-8Published: 22 March 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2571-7Published: 03 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-5849-5Published: 10 March 2010
Series ISSN: 1381-0480
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 312
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Industrial Organization, Operations Management, R & D/Technology Policy, Procurement