Health Policy and High-tech Industrial Development: Learning From Innovation in the Health Industry

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005

HC79

2004-053317

1-84376-757-0

Health policy and high-tech industrial development; learning from innovation in the health industry.

Title main entry. Ed. by Marco R. di Tommaso and Stuart O. Schweitzer.

Edward Elgar Pub. Co., [c]2005

285 p.

$120.00

Scholars in Europe, the US, Australia, and China explore industrial policy in the health industry from three perspectives. The economy-wide perspective considers the effect government policies have in encouraging innovation and high-technology industrial development; the small perspective looks at the production of innovation and adoption of technological change by individual health industry actors; and an intermediate perspective examines the industrial cluster, a geographic agglomeration of firms and institutions operation within a single industry or a group of complementary sectors. The study is a product of the three-year Health Industry Policy Project conducted by the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ferrara, Italy, and L'institute, the Institute for Industrial Development Policy.