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Innovation—The Missing Dimension

By: Richard K. Lester,Michael J. Piore

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Innovation—The Missing Dimension

By: Richard K. Lester,Michael J. Piore

Amid mounting concern over the loss of jobs to low-wage economies, one fact is clear: America's prosperity hinges on the ability of its businesses to continually introduce new products and services. But what makes for a creative economy? How can the remarkable surge of innovation that fueled the boom of the 1990s be sustained? For an answer, Richard K. Lester and Michael J. Piore examine innovation strategies in some of the economy's most dynamic sectors. Through eye-opening case studies of new product development in fields such as cell phones, medical devices, and blue jeans, two fundamental processes emerge. One of these processes, analysis--rational problem solving--dominates management and engineering practice. The other, interpretation, is not widely understood, or even recognized--although, as the authors make clear, it is absolutely crucial to innovation. Unlike problem solving, interpretation embraces and exploits ambiguity, the wellspring of creativity in the economy. By emphasizing interpretation, and showing how these two radically different processes can be combined, Lester and Piore's book gives managers and designers the concepts and tools to keep new products flowing. But the authors also offer an unsettling critique of national policy. By ignoring the role of interpretation, economic policymakers are drawing the wrong lessons from the 1990s boom. The current emphasis on expanding the reach of market competition will help the analytical processes needed to implement innovation. But if unchecked it risks choking off the economy's vital interpretive spaces. Unless a more balanced policy approach is adopted, warn Lester and Piore, America's capacity to innovate--its greatest economic asset--will erode.

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Harvard University Press

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0674040104

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Global Taiwan

Building Competitive Strengths in a New International Economy

By: Suzanne Berger,Richard K. Lester

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Global Taiwan

Building Competitive Strengths in a New International Economy

By: Suzanne Berger,Richard K. Lester

Global Taiwan examines the impact of globalization on the industry and economy of Taiwan since the spectacular growth of the 1990s. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with firms in Taiwan, China, the United States, Japan, Europe, and other areas, the book analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of Taiwanese firms at a time when they face new competition from powerful global leaders and new producers in China. The contributors cover topics of enormous importance for Taiwan as well as the rest of the world, including transformations in the international economy, technological advances that enabled modularization and fragmentation of the production system, contract manufacturers, regionalization, and links with Chinese industry. The book addresses such questions as: Can Taiwanese companies be maintained and expanded with the same corporate strategies and public policies as in the past? Can these strategies still work for other countries? If changes are required, what resources can be mobilized in the public and private sectors? As massive relocation of manufacturing and services moves plants and jobs to low-wage countries like China and India, what will remain at home in societies like Taiwan?

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Routledge

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1317469690

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9781317469698

The Productive Edge

A New Strategy for Economic Growth

By: Richard K. Lester

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The Productive Edge

A New Strategy for Economic Growth

By: Richard K. Lester

A fascinating tale of America's industrial comeback--how it happened, where it happened, and what must be done to make it last".--Jeffrey E. Garten, Dean of the Yale School of Management. Charts.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393320383

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9780393320381

Making Technology Work

Applications in Energy and the Environment

By: John M. Deutch,Richard K. Lester

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Making Technology Work

Applications in Energy and the Environment

By: John M. Deutch,Richard K. Lester

This book presents 15 interdisciplinary case studies of technology application in the energy and environment sectors.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521523176

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9780521523172

The Productive Edge

How U.S. Industries are Pointing the Way to a New Era of Economic Growth

By: Richard Keith Lester

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The Productive Edge

How U.S. Industries are Pointing the Way to a New Era of Economic Growth

By: Richard Keith Lester

Case studies of U.S. industrial performance show how recent gains in productivity in key sectors can serve as models for renewed growth in the economy as a whole. In this illuminating book, a leading authority on this crucial issue searches five recent success stories for clues to shape a new national strategy for economic growth. Illustrations.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393045749

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9780393045741

Unlocking Energy Innovation

How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System

By: Richard K. Lester,David M. Hart

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Unlocking Energy Innovation

How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System

By: Richard K. Lester,David M. Hart

Experts outline a plan to overhaul the U.S. energy innovation system for accelerated, large-scale adoption of reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy technologies. Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a timely transition to reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy, the U.S. energy innovation system must be radically overhauled. Unlocking Energy Innovation outlines an up-to-the-minute plan for remaking America's energy innovation system by tapping the country's entrepreneurial strengths and regional diversity in both the public and private spheres. “Business as usual” will not fill the energy innovation gap. Only the kind of systemic, transformative changes to our energy innovation system described in this provocative book will help us avert the most dire scenarios and achieve a sustainable and secure energy future.

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MIT Press

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0262300184

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9780262300186

Rights at Work

Employment Relations in the Post-Union Era

By: Richard Edwards

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Rights at Work

Employment Relations in the Post-Union Era

By: Richard Edwards

With growing international competition, American firms have been gaced with increasing pressures to produce better products, cut costs, and improve efficiency. As a result, American employers have changed many of their long-standing labor priorities. Work-force stability has become less important; long-term commitments have become less attractive; and labor costs, especially fringe benefits, have come under increased scrutiny. With this large reorganization of work forces and priorities, Americans are again faced with the significant questions of what rights workers have—and should have—in the workplace. In the current environment, employers have a greater need for highly motivated, hard-working, skilled employees, and have often developed innovated forms of management to enlist these worker's support. So too, national legislation has granted workers new rights in recent years, such as mandatory early notification of plant closings, greater rights for workers with disabilities, and increased protection for older workers. State legislators have also enacted expanded protection for workers, and state courts have been rewriting basic legal doctrines governing workers' rights in ways that favor employees. In this book, Richard Edwards explores workers' rights and the institutions that have defined and are now enforcing them. He looks closely at the decline of American unions and its effect on traditional rights. As unions have been transformed from major institutional players in the American economy to much more marginal brokers enrolling only a small minority of American workers, political support for workers' rights has diminished. Edwards also traces the American state courts' and the ongoing revision of the legal interpretations of employment contracts and employers' promises, a development which he believes may revolutionize traditional employment law. Rights at Work cuts through the debate between employers' groups and workers' ad

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815719795

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9780815719793

Low-Carbon Electricity Supply, digital original edition

A BIT of Unlocking Energy Innovation

By: Richard K. Lester,David M. Hart

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Low-Carbon Electricity Supply, digital original edition

A BIT of Unlocking Energy Innovation

By: Richard K. Lester,David M. Hart

Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a timely transition to reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy, the U.S. energy innovation system must be radically overhauled. This BIT describes innovation that enables low-carbon technologies to supplant natural gas and other fossil fuels for power generation.

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MIT Press

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0262317583

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Beyond Constructivism

Models and Modeling Perspectives on Mathematics Problem Solving, Learning, and Teaching

By: Richard A. Lesh,Helen M. Doerr

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Beyond Constructivism

Models and Modeling Perspectives on Mathematics Problem Solving, Learning, and Teaching

By: Richard A. Lesh,Helen M. Doerr

This book has two primary goals. On the level of theory development, the book clarifies the nature of an emerging "models and modeling perspective" about teaching, learning, and problem solving in mathematics and science education. On the level of emphasizing practical problems, it clarifies the nature of some of the most important elementary-but-powerful mathematical or scientific understandings and abilities that Americans are likely to need as foundations for success in the present and future technology-based information age. Beyond Constructivism: Models and Modeling Perspectives on Mathematics Problem Solving, Learning, and Teaching features an innovative Web site housing online appendices for each chapter, designed to supplement the print chapters with digital resources that include example problems, relevant research tools and video clips, as well as transcripts and other samples of students' work: http://tcct.soe.purdue.edu/booksULandULjournals/modelsULandUL modeling/ This is an essential volume for graduate-level courses in mathematics and science education, cognition and learning, and critical and creative thinking, as well as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in these areas.

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1317438515

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INNOVATION--THE MISSING DIMENSION

By: Richard K. LESTER,Michael J. Piore

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INNOVATION--THE MISSING DIMENSION

By: Richard K. LESTER,Michael J. Piore

The innovation strategies of some of the economy's most dynamic sectors are examined through a series of case studies of new product development, giving managers and designers the concepts and tools to keep new products flowing.

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0674019946

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Innovation—The Missing Dimension

Innovation—The Missing Dimension

Global Taiwan

Global Taiwan

The Productive Edge

The Productive Edge

Making Technology Work

Making Technology Work

The Productive Edge

The Productive Edge

Unlocking Energy Innovation

Unlocking Energy Innovation

Rights at Work

Rights at Work

Low-Carbon Electricity Supply, digital original edition

Low-Carbon Electricity Supply, digital original edition

Beyond Constructivism

Beyond Constructivism

INNOVATION--THE MISSING DIMENSION

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