The microeconomics of product innovation / by Paul Stoneman (Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK), Eleonora Bartoloni (Italian National Institute of Statistics, Milan, Italy), Maurizio Baussola (Dipartimento di Scienze Econmiche e Sociali, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-239) and index. Non-Latin script record
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Some initial definitions -- 3. Sources of new products -- 4. The extent of product innovation -- 5. The demand for a new product -- 6. Capacity creation, pricing, and the promotion of product innovations -- 7. The incentives to, and constraints upon, product innovation -- 8. Empirical evidence on the determinations of the extent of product innovation -- 9. The diffusion of product innovations -- 10. Product innovation and firm performance -- 11. Product innovation and price measurement -- 12. Product innovation and welfare -- 13. Product innovation and the policy dimension.
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