{"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\u003cbr\u003emanufacturing industry during the period 1970-2007. Specifically it examines whether\u003cbr\u003eand to what extent innovations have been the creative response to positive factors,\u003cbr\u003esuch as new opportunities and obstacles related to their exploitation, and negative\u003cbr\u003efactors, such as economic, environmental and organizational problems. To this end, a\u003cbr\u003enewly constructed database, SWINNO, containing more than 4000 innovations is explored.\u003cbr\u003eUsing this database, the thesis studies the determinants of innovation activity\u003cbr\u003ein firms, industries, in development blocks and on the macro-level. The results point\u003cbr\u003eto the existence of two main patterns. Innovations aimed to solve economic, environmental\u003cbr\u003eand organizational problems have culminated during the 1970s, reflecting\u003cbr\u003ethe deep economic, social and environmental character of the structural crisis. Some\u003cbr\u003eof these innovations have been parts of development blocks solving obstacles to the\u003cbr\u003eintroduction of emission control and renewable energy technologies. Innovations exploiting\u003cbr\u003eopportunities have culminated in the mid-1980s and towards the beginning\u003cbr\u003eof the 2000s. These have formed development blocks surrounding ICT and biotechnology,\u003cbr\u003eevolving by way of the exploitation of opportunities and the solution of technological\u003cbr\u003eimbalances. New technologies have been salient driving forces among entrant\u003cbr\u003eand incumbent ICT firms, but evidence was also found for a role played by decreases\u003cbr\u003ein profitability in inducing search for new products.","brand":"Media-Tryck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31914607476825,"sku":"9789187793066","price":51.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9789187793066_1-innovation-as-creative-response.jpg?v=1749702752","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/innovation-as-creative-response","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}