Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks - Couverture souple

Branscomb, Lewis M.; Auerswald, Philip E.

 
9780262524193: Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0262524198 ISBN 13 : 9780262524193
Editeur : MIT Press, 2003

Synopsis

Lewis Branscomb and Philip Auerswald address early-stage, high-tech innovation in the context of business decision making and innovation policy.

How do technology innovators, business executives, and venture capitalists manage the technical elements of business risk when developing and launching new products? Overcoming technical risks requires crossing the so-called valley of death--the gap between demonstrating the soundness of a technical concept in a controlled setting and readying the product technology for the market. Crossing the valley of death may mean bringing university-based research to the point where it appears viable to venture capitalists, or bridging the cultural gap between technical innovators and the managers who are being asked to risk their institutional resources. In every context, purely technical risks are coupled with the market risks inherent in innovation.

In this book Lewis Branscomb and Philip Auerswald address early-stage, high-tech innovation in the context of business decision making and innovation policy. The topics addressed include the extent to which purely technical risk is separable from market risk; how industrial managers make decisions on funding early-stage, high-risk technology projects; and under what circumstances government can and should act to reduce the technical risks of innovative projects so that firms will invest in them. The book includes contributions by Mary Good, George Hartmann, James McGroddy, Mike Myers, Michael Roberts, and F. M. Scherer.

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À propos des auteurs

Lewis M. Branscomb is Aetna Professor in Public Policy and Corporate Management, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Philip Auerswald is Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy and an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is co-editor of Innovations: Technology Governance Globalization and author or co-author of numerous books, reports, and research papers, including Taking Technical Risk: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks (MIT Press, 2001) and Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability.

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Éditeur
MIT Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262524198
ISBN 13 
9780262524193
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  026202490X ISBN 13 :  9780262024907
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2001
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