Hot off the Press!
Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment
David B. Audretsch and Roy Thurik's new book is rolling out of the Cambridge University
Press this July. (The book will officially be published in August, both in Great
Britain and in the United States).
read an introduction to articles in the book: IIEandE.pdf
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(ISBN: 0-521-64166-7)
Traditional approaches to creating employment and economic growth have failed in the
1990s. A new understanding of what creates jobs and drives growth has emerged in a
cross-disciplinary approach which combines industrial organization, the economics of
technological change, labor economics, and international economics. The new approach
focuses on the dynamics of firms and industries as sources of innovation (and consequently
increased competitiveness, job creation, and economic growth), and emphasizes the shift in
economic activity based on traditional factors of production to being based on new
economic knowledge.
Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment edited by David Audretsch and
Roy Thurik brings together leading scholars to present important and ori8ganl research in
this exciting new area. With case study material taken from countries including
France, Germany, Holland, Canada, and the US, Innovation, Industry Evolution, and
Employment will be vital reading for policy-makers, researchers, and students.
Advance praise for
Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment:
| The fundamental fact that unemployment is
too high in Europe is generally explained by high wage levels. In strong contrast,
there are other labour market models which have some apparent advantages in terms of job
creation, but with lower average wages. The
temptation is then to accept the fatal trade-off between greater employment at the
sacrifice of lower wages, against the maintenance of wages and living standards with the
penalty of less employment.
The challenge of this innovative book is to question this
apparent dilemma on the basis of empirical evidence and rigorous analyses.
The central argument of the contributors to this volume
is that Europe and North America have lost the comparative advantage in traditional
industries. The alternative is to invest in knowledge-based economic activity, which
is characterised by both high wages and high levels of employment.
This book renews an essential debate for the future of
European competitiveness.
Alexis Jacquemin
Université Catholique de Louvain
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This volume examines the complex but exceedingly important
relationships between entrepreneurial activity, economic growth, and technological
innovation. To address these issues -- of considerable interest to academics and
policy makers alike -- these papers employ a diverse array of little-explored data sets
from a wide variety of countries and variety of methodologies. Disentangling the
chain of causation is not easy, and this topic will surely attract considerable empirical
research in the years to come. This volume will be frequently referred to, both by
practitioners seeking to gain an understanding of what is known already about these
complex relationships and by scholars seeking to map out future analytic explorations.
Josh Lerner
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
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