The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World

by Amar Bhide and Amar Bhid

Book Overview

Many warn that the next stage of globalization--the offshoring of research and development to China and India--threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. But in The Venturesome Economy , acclaimed business and economics scholar Amar Bhid shows how wrong the doomsayers are. Using extensive field studies on venture-capital-backed businesses to examine how technology really advances in modern economies, Bhid explains why know-how developed abroad...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691135177
• ISBN13: 9780691135175
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.5"