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_bBAU/M
100 _aBaumol, William J.
245 4 _aThe microtheory of innovative entrepreneurship/
_cWilliam J. Baumol
260 _bPrinceton University Press,
_c2010.
300 _axiv, 246p.:
_bill. ;
_c24cm.
440 _a The Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship
505 _a Contents: List of Figures and Tables ix PREFACE: The Innovative Entrepreneur in Dynamic Microtheory xi INTRODUCTION: Bringing Entrepreneurship and Innovation into the Theory of Value 1 CHAPTER 1: Entrepreneurship in Economic Theory: Reasons for Its Absence and Goals for Its Restoration 9 PART I: Pricing, Remuneration, and Allocation of the Agents of Innovation CHAPTER 2: Toward Characterization of the Innovation Industry: The David-Goliath Symbiosis 25 CHAPTER 3: Entrepreneurship, Invention, and Pricing: Toward Static Microtheory 36 CHAPTER 4: Oligopolistic "Red Queen" Innovation Games, Mandatory Price Discrimination, and Markets in Innovation 57 PART II: Welfare Theory: Technology Transfer, Imitation, and Creative Destruction CHAPTER 5: Optimal Innovation Spillovers: The Growth-Distribution Trade-off 77 CHAPTER 6: Enterprising Technology Dissemination: Toward Optimal Transfer Pricing and the Invaluable Contribution of "Mere Imitation" 101 CHAPTER 7: The Entrepreneur and the Beneficial Externalities of Creative Destruction 128 PART III: Institutions, Payoffs, and the Entrepreneur's Choice of Activity: Historical Origins CHAPTER 8: Economic Warfare as a "Red Queen" Game: The Emergence of Productive Entrepreneurship 139 CHAPTER 9: On the Origins of Widespread Productive Entrepreneurship 152 CHAPTER 10: The Allocation of Entrepreneurship Does Matter 165 CHAPTER 11: Mega-enterprising Redesign of Governing Institutions: Keystone of Dynamic Microtheory 172 CHAPTER 12: Summing Up: Yes, the Theory of Entrepreneurship Is on Its Way 188 Notes 197 References 225 Index 237
650 _aEntrepreneurship.
650 _aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Microeconomics.
650 _aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Entrepreneurship.
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