Powerful Finance and Innovation Trends in a High-Risk Economy

1. Introduction: How does Finance Condition Innovation Trajectories?
Blandine Laperche, Dimitri Uzunidis

Part I. The Finance- and Knowledge-Based Economy

2. Innovation and Predation
James K. Galbraith

3. Innovation, Finance and Economic Movements
Dimitri Uzunidis

4. Macroeconomic Policy, Investment and Innovation
Malcolm Sawyer

5. Doctrinal Roots of Short-Termism
James E. Sawyer

6. Finance, State and Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary Economy
Sophie Boutillier

7. The Political Economy of R&D in a Global Financial Context
Jerry Courvisanos

8. Finance and Intellectual Property Rights as the Two Pillars of Capitalism Changes
George Liodakis

Part II. Innovation Trajectories and Profitability in Firms’ Strategies

9. The Firm and its Governance over the Industry Life Cycle
Jackie Krafft, Jacques-Laurent Ravix

10. Economic Change and the Organization of Industry: Is the Entrepreneur the Missing Link?
Edouard Barreiro, Joël-Thomas Ravix

11. Innovation and Profitability in the Computer Industry
Christian Genthon

12. Creation and Co-evolution of Strategic Options by Firms: an Entrepreneurial and Managerial Approach of Flexibility and Resource Allocation
Thierry Burger-Helmchen

13. Financial Means’ Competencies and Innovation: Comparative Advantages between SMEs and Big Enterprises
Francis Munier

14. The Financing of Innovative Activities by Banking Institutions: Policy Issues and Regulatory Options
Elisa Ughetto

15. Innovation and the Profitability Imperative: Consequences on the Formation of the Firm’s Knowledge Capital
Blandine Laperche

Keywords: Economics, Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Political Economy, Finance, general