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The Breakthrough Illusion Richard Florida

The Breakthrough Illusion By Richard Florida

The Breakthrough Illusion by Richard Florida

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The USA has often failed to capitalise on its technological breakthroughs. This analysis of the weaknesses and strengths of US high technology warns that until the US learns to reconnect research and development with production, foreign companies will continue to prevail in the world marketplace.

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The Breakthrough Illusion: Corporate America's Failure To Move From Innovation To Mass Production by Richard Florida

The USA has often failed to capitalise on its technological breakthroughs. This analysis of the weaknesses and strengths of US high technology warns that until the US learns to reconnect research and development with production, foreign companies will continue to prevail in the world marketplace.

About Richard Florida

Richard Florida is Professor of Business and Creativity at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and the founder of the Creative Class Group, a for-profit think tank that charts trends in business, communities, and lifestyles. His national bestseller The Rise of the Creative Class was awarded the Washington Monthly's Political Book Award and Harvard Business Review's Breakthrough Idea Award. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction: the breakthrough illusion. Part 1 Origins and institutions: how we lost the follow-through; a new breakthrough system for high technology; venture capital and the breakthrough bias. Part 2 Limits: the hypermobility of high-tech labour; silicon valley and route 128 won't save us; neglecting high-technology manufacture. Part 3 Beyond the breakthrough illusion: competing with Japan - the world's new follow-through economy; patchwork solutions; transcending the breakthrough economy.

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NLS9780465007608
9780465007608
0465007600
The Breakthrough Illusion: Corporate America's Failure To Move From Innovation To Mass Production by Richard Florida
Richard Florida
New
Paperback
Basic Books
1992-03-18
272
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