By Gunnar Eliasson

The basic subject matter of this e-book is to enquire the macroeconomic importance of the "cloud" of technological spillovers that surrounds complicated commercial construction: In what methods do technological techniques unfold and give a contribution to fiscal progress? What guidelines will be constructed to maximise the industrial strength of thoughts? those issues are rather well timed within the context of world fiscal quandary, government-sponsored stimulus applications, and the continued evolution from manufacturing-based to knowledge-based economies. To discover those concerns intensive, Gunnar Eliasson specializes in an in depth case examine of the improvement of Saab’s army plane, the JAS 39 Gripen system—a undertaking that contains complicated technological ideas, a posh community of providers, public-private zone collaboration, and either army and advertisement functions. The adventure within the airplane is additionally in comparison with spillover results in telephony, desktops, and clinical applied sciences. The research emphasizes the position of purchaser competence in elevating the standard of innovation provide, and of entrepreneurship and industrially useful enterprise capital for commercializing spillovers. Eliasson integrates micro-econometrics and case research research with macroeconomics, innovation examine equipment, and enterprise management thought to degree the consequences of expertise spillovers and generate an excellent empirical starting place for coverage research. particularly, he considers:

• the function of efficient public (government) procurement as a brand new call for coverage to aid innovation supply
• the emergence of the complex corporations as "technical university," the place continuous studying occurs and entrepreneurship between buyers and different stakeholders is encouraged
• issues of highbrow estate rights and the social price of technological innovations
• the implications for strategic company perform and public policy

The result's a e-book that would entice a wide spectrum of teachers, leaders, and policymakers attracted to the dynamics of innovation provide, commercialization of applied sciences and monetary growth.