An important new book for service researchers
news - Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:00
The Handbook of Innovation and Services edited by Faiz Gallouj and Faridah Djellal has been recently published. BIT Director Marja Toivonen is one of the authors of the book.
The Handbook of Innovation and Services
A Multi-disciplinary Perspective Edited by Faïz Gallouj, University of Lille 1 and Faridah Djellal, University of Tours, France
''‘The Handbook of Innovation and Services is an exceptional volume. Its contributors,
including Faïz Gallouj, William Baumol, Jean Gadrey, and Pascal Petit, are among
the major thinkers in both the felds of the economics of services and the economics of
innovation. Selected topics include the “cost disease”, services innovation in the global economy, social innovation in the services, and innovation and employment in services. The book, I am sure, will become a standard reference volume in both these felds in the
ensuing years.’''
– Edward Wolf, New York University, US
This Handbook brings together 49 international specialists to address an issue of increasing importance for the world’s post-industrial economies; innovation as it relates to services.
Contemporary economies have two fundamental characteristics. Firstly, they are service economies in as much as services account for more than 70 per cent of the wealth and jobs in most developed countries. Secondly, they are innovation economies as recent decades have seen an unprecedented development of scientific, technological, organisational and social innovations. This Handbook expertly links these two major characteristics in order to investigate the role of innovation in services, an issue that until now has been inadequately explored and one that poses many theoretical and operational challenges. This comprehensive volume encompasses the views of eminent scholars from a range of disciplines including economics, management, sociology and geography, and draws on a number of different analytical and methodological perspectives.
With its multi-disciplinary approach this Handbook will be an invaluable reference source for academics and students in the felds of economics, management and the geography of services and innovation. Public authorities and managers in the service sector will also fnd this book fascinating.
Contributors: C. Antonelli, A. Barcet, W.J. Baumol, K. Blind, J. Bröchner, J.R. Bryson, J.A. Camacho, P. Daniels, P. den Hertog, F. Djellal, B. Edvardsson, R. Evangelista, E. Fairhurst, O. Furrer, J. Gadrey, F. Gallouj, M. García-Goñi, L. Green, A. Gustafsson, D. Harrisson, C. Hipp, J. Howells, F.M. Hull, J.-L. Klein, P. Kristensson, P. Leduc Browne, S. Lenfe, P.-Y. Léo, S. Massini, C. Midler, I. Miles, M. Miozzo, M.-C. Monnoyer-Longé, P.P. Patrucco, P. Petit, J. Philippe, M. Rodriguez, F. Rossi, L. Rubalcaba, M. Savona, J. Sundbo, J. Tidd, M. Toivonen, A. Trigo, X. Vence, P. Windrum, L. Wittel, D. Wójcik, P. Wood
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