Excerpt from The Renewal Process and Obstacles to Innovation It appears to me that the maturity of firms and industries, and I even dare say economies, is a relative phenomenon and that most likely it is caused by constraints that we as managers, engineers and scientists impose on our imagination. Let us for a moment look at industrial history and draw some lessons. No one can ignore available empirical evidence that, in the United States, we have firms and industries that have matured and are declining. So that I may not ...
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Excerpt from The Renewal Process and Obstacles to Innovation It appears to me that the maturity of firms and industries, and I even dare say economies, is a relative phenomenon and that most likely it is caused by constraints that we as managers, engineers and scientists impose on our imagination. Let us for a moment look at industrial history and draw some lessons. No one can ignore available empirical evidence that, in the United States, we have firms and industries that have matured and are declining. So that I may not alienate people and make foes out of friends, I will not mention specific firms by name, but instead I will concentrate on industries. Shoes, textiles, ships, steel, farm equipment, consumer electronics, automobiles, are but a few examples of industries where the United States was preeminent and lost its leading edge. In this sense these industries, in the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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