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Innovation by Demand - An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Demand and its Role in Innovation (Paperback)
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Innovation by Demand - An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Demand and its Role in Innovation (Paperback)
Series: New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition
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The structure and regulation of consumption and demand has recently
become of great interest to sociologists and economists alike, and
at the same time there is growing interest in trying to understand
the patterns and drivers of technological innovation. This book,
newly available in paperback, brings together a range of
sociologists and economists to study the role of demand and
consumption in the innovative process. The book starts with a broad
conceptual overview of ways that the sociological and economics
literatures address issues of innovation, demand and consumption.
It goes on to offer different approaches to the economics of demand
and innovation through an evolutionary framework, before reviewing
how consumption fits into evolutionary models of economic
development. Food consumption is then looked at as an example of
innovation by demand, including an examination of the dynamic
nature of socially-constituted consumption routines. The book
includes a number of illuminating case studies, including an
analysis of how black Americans use consumption to express
collective identity, and a number of demand-innovation
relationships within matrices or chains of producers and users or
other actors, including service industries such as security, and
the environmental performance of companies. The involvement of
consumers in innovation is looked at, including an analysis of how
consumer needs may be incorporated in the design of high-tech
products. The final chapter argues for the need to build an
economic sociology of demand that goes from micro-individual
through to macro-structural features. This book is relevant to
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 9, Industry, innovation
and infrastructure -- .
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