Tag Innovation Economics

November 15, 2017
in American History, Business, Current Affairs, Economics, History, Social Science

The Four Horsemen of Capitalist Decline

November 15, 2017
in American History, Business, Current Affairs, Economics, History, Social Science

Fredrik Erixon and Björn Weigel— Now, however, capitalism seems to have lost its founding spirit of enterprise. Four forces that guided the economy from the 1970s assisted in reducing the scope for experimentation and innovation. They are not the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, nor were they all undesirable, but

September 30, 2012
in Business, Current Affairs, Economics

Winning the Race with the Eight “I’s” of Innovation Policy

September 30, 2012
in Business, Current Affairs, Economics

When we think about the causes of the Great Recession, the first one that comes to mind is usually the burst housing bubble. But the origins of the recession—and our sluggish recovery from it—go deeper than that. According to Robert D. Atkinson and Stephen J. Ezell, co-authors of Innovation Economics: