{"product_id":"innovation-as-creative-response","title":"Innovation as Creative Response","description":"This doctoral thesis examines the driving forces of product innovations in the Swedish\nmanufacturing industry during the period 1970-2007. Specifically it examines whether\nand to what extent innovations have been the creative response to positive factors,\nsuch as new opportunities and obstacles related to their exploitation, and negative\nfactors, such as economic, environmental and organizational problems. To this end, a\nnewly constructed database, SWINNO, containing more than 4000 innovations is explored.\nUsing this database, the thesis studies the determinants of innovation activity\nin firms, industries, in development blocks and on the macro-level. The results point\nto the existence of two main patterns. Innovations aimed to solve economic, environmental\nand organizational problems have culminated during the 1970s, reflecting\nthe deep economic, social and environmental character of the structural crisis. Some\nof these innovations have been parts of development blocks solving obstacles to the\nintroduction of emission control and renewable energy technologies. Innovations exploiting\nopportunities have culminated in the mid-1980s and towards the beginning\nof the 2000s. These have formed development blocks surrounding ICT and biotechnology,\nevolving by way of the exploitation of opportunities and the solution of technological\nimbalances. New technologies have been salient driving forces among entrant\nand incumbent ICT firms, but evidence was also found for a role played by decreases\nin profitability in inducing search for new products.","brand":"Media-Tryck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32446255857764,"sku":"9789187793066","price":51.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/innovation-as-creative-response","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}