Innovation by Demand: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Demand and its Role in Innovation (New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition) - Hardcover

Sociologists and economists study the role of demand and consumption in the innovative process in this work. It contains a broad conceptual overview of the ways that sociological and economics literatures address issues of innovation, demand and consumption and offers different approaches to the economics of demand and innovation through an evolutionary framework, before reviewing how consumption fits. into evolutionary models of economic development 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.

Andrew McMeekin is Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competitionat the University of Manchester Mark Tomlinson is a lecturer based at CRIC (Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition), The University of Manchester and UMIST The late Ken Green was a lecturer at Manchester School of Management, UMIST Vivien Walsh is a lecturer at Manchester School of Management, UMIST