Innovation in Global Industries: U.S. Firms Competing in a New World (Collected Studies)

by National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, and Economic Policy Board on Science, Technology

The debate over offshoring of production, transfer of technological capabilities, and potential loss of U.S. competitiveness is a long-running one. Prevailing thinking is that "the world is flat"--that is, innovative capacity is spreading uniformly; as new centers of manufacturing emerge, research and development and new product development follow.

Innovation in Global Industries challenges this thinking. The book, a collection of individually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309116317
• ISBN13: 9780309116312
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"